FACILE SYNTHESIS AND MICROWAVE ABSORPTION PROPERTIES OF α-MnO2 NANORODS
A low-temperature water-bathing chemical precipitation method was developed to synthesize α- MnO2 nanorods. The morphological and crystalline structures were investigated by scanning electronic microscopy (SEM), transmission electronic microscopy (TEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) spectra. The electromagnetic properties and microwave absorption properties were examined in the frequency range 2–18 GHz. The results show that the as-synthesized product is α- MnO2 nanorod with diameters of 30 nm and lengths up to 1–2 μm. The dielectric permittivity has a trend of decreasing its real and increasing its imaginary parts with the frequency. The magnetic permeability is about 1.0–1.2 and 0–0.1 for its real and imaginary parts at the whole frequency. With the increase of sample thickness, the reflection loss peak value shifts to lower frequency band. With a thickness of 3 mm, an absorption peak value of -25 dB was achieved. And its effective absorption bandwidth in which the reflection loss is lower than -10 dB is as high as 5 GHz.