Porous carbon materials for microwave absorption

Microwave Absorption Characteristics of Carbon Nanotubes

Microwave absorption properties of pyrolytic carbon nanofilm

We analyzed the electromagnetic (EM) shielding effectiveness in the Ka band (26 to 37 GHz) of highly amorphous nanometrically thin pyrolytic carbon (PyC) films with lateral dimensions of 7.2 × 3.4 mm2, which consists of randomly oriented and intertwined graphene flakes with a typical size of a few nanometers. We discovered that the manufactured PyC films, whose thickness is thousand times less ...

Microwave heating processes involving carbon materials

Carbon materials are, in general, very good absorbents of microwaves, i.e., they are easily heated by microwave radiation. This characteristic allows them to be transformed by microwave heating, giving rise to new carbons with tailored properties, to be used as microwave receptors, in order to heat other materials indirectly, or to act as a catalyst and microwave receptor in different heterogen...

Migration mechanism for atomic hydrogen in porous carbon materials

To explain the fast kinetics of H in porous carbon, we propose that the migration relies on H hopping from a carbon nanotube (CNT) to another. Using density functional theory, we have found that the barrier for H hopping becomes smaller than that for diffusion along a tube for certain CNT separations, decreasing to less than 0.5 eV for separations of 3.1 Å. Such significant reduction occurs irr...

Hydrogen Absorption Property of Pd-Doped Porous Materials

In electrochemical loading of Pd with deuterium, it has been known that attaining a D/Pd value larger than 0.88 is necessary for triggering excess heat effects [1]. It has been reported by Arata and Zhang that the heat arising from D-D nuclear fusion reaction in solid is observed simply by pressurizing nano-Pd/ZrO2 system with deuterium gas [2]. It seems that nano-scale Pd particles absorb more...