Sambyal, Pradeep and Singh, Avanish Pratap and Verma, Meenakshi and Farukh, M. and Singh, Bhanu Pratap and Dhawan, S. K. (2014) Tailored polyaniline/barium strontium titanate/expanded graphite multiphase composite for efficient radar absorption. RSC Advances, 4 (24). pp. 12614-12624. ISSN 2046-2069

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Abstract

The present paper reports the synthesis of a high-performance microwave absorbing material using a simple, cost-effective and scalable method by encapsulating barium strontium titanate (BST) and expanded graphite (EG) in a polyaniline (PANI) matrix. One of the formulations (higher content of BST) shows shielding effectiveness due to absorption of more than 50 dB (>99.9999% attenuation) with minimum reflection loss (<= 1 dB) in the Ku-band (12.4-18 GHz) frequency range. Another formulation (higher content of EG) shows a total shielding effectiveness of more than 81 dB with a reflection loss of 10 dB. In order to probe the relationship between the observed shielding response and the electromagnetic attributes, dielectric and permeability parameters have been calculated from the measured scattering parameters (S-11, S-22, S-12, S-21) using the Nicolson-Ross-Weir algorithm. The synthesised formulations were characterized thoroughly using XRD, FTIR, TGA, UV, Raman spectroscopy, SEM and HRTEM.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: Chemistry
Divisions: UNSPECIFIED
Depositing User: Dr. Rajpal Walke
Date Deposited: 23 Nov 2015 10:08
Last Modified: 23 Nov 2015 10:08
URI: http://npl.csircentral.net/id/eprint/1600

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