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Electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding materials are in great demand in electronic equipment and our surrounding environment to resist the increasing serious radiation pollution. Compared with their metal counterparts, conductive polymer composites (CPCs) have unique advantages of lightweight, corrosive resistance, low cost, and excellent processability, and are therefore an ideal choice for developing high-performance EMI shielding materials. However, CPCs based EMI shielding materials are limited to high filler loading, which caused poor mechanical properties and processability. Here, we demonstrate a facile and highly scalable approach to develop high-performance EMI shielding materials with low filler loading by using miscible poly(phenylene oxide)/polystyrene (PPO/PS) blend as the matrix. In contrast to PS/carbon nanotubes (CNTs) composites, PPO/PS/CNTs composites show much higher EMI shielding effectiveness caused by good dispersion of CNTs and highly interconnected conductive network. An excellent EMI shieling effectiveness of 23–25 dB is achieved for PPO/PS/10%CNTs composites with a thickness of only 375 µm, which is superior to most of reported polymer/CNTs composites prepared by melt-compounding. In addition, the results show that although absorption is the major shielding mechanism, the contribution of reflection is also important and closely related to the connectivity of conductive network, as well as the electrical conductivity of the CPCs.
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Zhang, QY., Li, HS., Guo, BH. et al. Facile Preparation of Electromagnetic Interference Shielding Materials Enabled by Constructing Interconnected Network of Multi-walled Carbon Nanotubes in a Miscible Polymeric Blend. Chin J Polym Sci 38, 593–598 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10118-020-2370-5
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