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Tong Liu¹, Yu Pang, Mu Zhu

¹Key Laboratory of Aerospace Materials and Performance (Ministry of Education), School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beihang University, No. 37 Xueyuan Road, Beijing, 100191, China. tongliu@buaa.edu.cn.

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Researchers developed novel nanoporous cobalt nanoparticles (Co NPs) with micropores. These Co NPs exhibit superior microwave absorption properties, achieving a reflection loss of -90.2 dB.

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Area of Science:

Materials Science
Nanotechnology
Electromagnetics

Background:

Nanoporous metals offer diverse applications but fabricating nanoporous metal nanoparticles (NPs) remains challenging.
Developing suitable nanoscale precursors is a key difficulty in NP synthesis.

Purpose of the Study:

To synthesize nanoporous cobalt nanoparticles (Co NPs) using a dealloying approach.
To investigate the microwave absorption properties of these novel Co NPs.

Main Methods:

Chemical dealloying of cobalt-aluminum (Co-Al) NPs to create nanoporous Co NPs.
Passivation process to form a cobalt oxide (CoO) shell, resulting in Co@CoO core-shell structures.
Characterization of NP morphology, size, and surface area.

Main Results:

Successfully synthesized 31 nm nanoporous Co NPs with micropores (0.7–1.7 nm) and a surface area of 50 m²/g.
Co@CoO core-shell NPs exhibited enhanced microwave absorption compared to nonporous counterparts.
Achieved a reflection loss (RL) of -90.2 dB with a thin layer (1.3 mm) and an absorption bandwidth of 7.2 GHz for RL below -10 dB.

Conclusions:

Microporous Co@CoO NPs demonstrate high-performance microwave absorption capabilities.
The study highlights the potential of tailored nanoporous materials for advanced absorber design.
This work opens new avenues for developing efficient microwave absorption materials.