Issue 35, 2012

Novel microwave dielectric response of Ni/Co-doped manganese dioxides and their microwave absorbing properties

Abstract

A facile redox reaction between KMnO4 and MnSO4 was carried out to investigate the dielectric response and microwave absorbing properties of Ni/Co-doped MnO2. The samples were characterized by X-ray powder diffraction (XRD), X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (XRF), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and vector network analysis. The analysis results revealed that the powders were α-MnO2 with one-dimensional nanostructure. The doping of Ni/Co had a certain effect on the dielectric properties: the relative complex permittivity showed a more distinct dielectric response characteristic, and the imaginary part exhibited a great enhancement of 2–18 GHz, which resulted in controllable wave-absorbing properties. The microwave absorbing bandwidth (RL < −10 dB) for Co-doped MnO2 was located at 10.96–16.13 GHz with a thickness of 2 mm. Furthermore, the Debye equation was introduced to explain the novel microwave dielectric response of doped MnO2. Some other properties derived from dielectric performances were also investigated, such as dielectric loss tangent and dielectric conductivity. In particular, first-principles calculations based on density functional theory (DFT) were used to uncover the relationship of electronic structure and dielectric properties on the microscopic scale.

Graphical abstract: Novel microwave dielectric response of Ni/Co-doped manganese dioxides and their microwave absorbing properties

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
16 May 2012
Accepted
12 Jul 2012
First published
13 Jul 2012

J. Mater. Chem., 2012,22, 18291-18299

Novel microwave dielectric response of Ni/Co-doped manganese dioxides and their microwave absorbing properties

Y. Duan, Z. Liu, H. Jing, Y. Zhang and S. Li, J. Mater. Chem., 2012, 22, 18291 DOI: 10.1039/C2JM33124A

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