rGO/MXene sandwich-structured film at spunlace non-woven fabric substrate: Application to EMI shielding and electrical heating

Yu Zhang; Qiang Gao; Shuai Zhang; Xun Fan; Jianbin Qin; Xuetao Shi; Guangcheng Zhang

doi:10.1016/j.jcis.2022.01.030

rGO/MXene sandwich-structured film at spunlace non-woven fabric substrate: Application to EMI shielding and electrical heating

J Colloid Interface Sci. 2022 May 15:614:194-204. doi: 10.1016/j.jcis.2022.01.030. Epub 2022 Jan 10.

Authors

Yu Zhang¹, Qiang Gao¹, Shuai Zhang¹, Xun Fan¹, Jianbin Qin¹, Xuetao Shi², Guangcheng Zhang³

Affiliations

¹ Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Science and Technology, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710072, PR China.
² Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Science and Technology, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710072, PR China. Electronic address: shixuetao@nwpu.edu.cn.
³ Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Science and Technology, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710072, PR China. Electronic address: zhangguc@nwpu.edu.cn.

PMID: 35091147
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2022.01.030

Abstract

Combining flexible reduced graphene oxide (rGO) with highlyelectrical conductive and flame retardant MXene to prepare electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding composite film is a research hotspot. In this work, with a small amount of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) used as the adhesive, rGO/MXene loaded on spunlace non-woven fabric (SNF) through a soaking-drying-reduction method to form a sandwich structure composite film (SNF covered with rGO/MXene nanosheets as the interlayer, and rGO/MXene thin films as the upper and lower layers). The related EMI shielding effectiveness (SE), electric heating performance and flame retardancy of the fabricated sandwich structure composite film have been investigated. When the mass ratio of rGO to MXene is 6:4 (named rGO/MXene-4), the average SE_T of the film can reach 55.81 dB in X-band with an absorption-dominant shielding. Applying a 4 V voltage to rGO/MXene-4 film, its surface temperature can exceed 110 °C within 10 s, which indicated the fabricated rGO/MXene-4 film can be applied as a high electromagnetic shielding electric heating device with outstanding flame retardancy.

Keywords: Electric heating; Electromagnetic interference shielding; Sandwich structure; Spunlace non-woven fabric; rGO/MXene.