High Performance Microwave Absorption Material Based on Metal-Backboned Polymer

Metal-backboned polymers with anisotropy microstructures are promising for conductive, optoelectronic, and magnetic functional materials. However, the structure-property relationships governing the interplay between the chemical structure and electromagnetic property of the metal-backboned polymer have been rarely investigated. Here we report a carbon/nickel hybrid from metal-backboned polymer to serve as electromagnetic wave-absorbing materials, which exhibit high microwave absorption capacity and tunable absorption band. The presence of nickel backbones promote the generation of heterogeneous interfaces with carbon during calcination, thereby enhancing the wave-absorbing capacity of the carbon/nickel hybrid. The C/Ni hybrids show a minimal reflection loss of −49.1 dB at 13.04 GHz, and its frequency of the absorption band can be adjusted by controlling the thickness of the absorption layer.