Interfacing MXene Flakes on a Magnetic Fiber Network as a Stretchable, Flexible, Electromagnetic Shielding Fabric

Zhen Miao; Xiaohong Chen; Honglei Zhou; Ping Liu; Shaoli Fu; Jiajie Yang; Yuhang Gao; Yupeng Ren; Dong Rong

doi:10.3390/nano12010020

Nanomaterials (Dec 2021)

Interfacing MXene Flakes on a Magnetic Fiber Network as a Stretchable, Flexible, Electromagnetic Shielding Fabric

Zhen Miao,
Xiaohong Chen,
Honglei Zhou,
Ping Liu,
Shaoli Fu,
Jiajie Yang,
Yuhang Gao,
Yupeng Ren,
Dong Rong

Affiliations

Zhen Miao: School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200000, China
Xiaohong Chen: School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200000, China
Honglei Zhou: School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200000, China
Ping Liu: School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200000, China
Shaoli Fu: School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200000, China
Jiajie Yang: School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200000, China
Yuhang Gao: School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200000, China
Yupeng Ren: School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200000, China
Dong Rong: School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200000, China

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/nano12010020
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 12, no. 1
p. 20

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A unique self-standing membrane composed of hierarchical thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU)/polyacrylonitrile (PAN) fibers is prepared by the electrospinning technique, followed by a simple dip-coating process. Fe3O4 nanoparticles are uniformly anchored on TPU/PAN fibers during the electrospinning process, enabling the membrane to achieve effective electromagnetic interference shielding (EMI SE) performance. Such a hybrid membrane has a high magnetization of 18.9 emu/g. When MXene (Ti3C2Tx) layers are further loaded on the TPU/PAN/Fe3O4NPs hybrid membrane, its EMI SE performance in the X band can exceed 30 dB due to the hydrogen bonds generated between the macromolecular chain of PAN and the functional group (Tx) on the surface of MXene. Simultaneously, the interfacial attraction between MXene and the TPU/PAN/Fe3O4NPs substrate is enhanced. The EMI SE mechanism of the hybrid membrane indicates that this film has great potential in the fields of wearable devices and flexible materials.

Published in Nanomaterials

ISSN: 2079-4991 (Online)
Publisher: MDPI AG
Country of publisher: Switzerland
LCC subjects: Science: Chemistry
Website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/nanomaterials

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