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Tunable negative dielectric properties of magnetic CoFe2O4/graphite-polypyrrole metacomposites

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In this work, the CoFe2O4/graphite-polypyrrole (PPy) metacomposites with negative dielectric constant were prepared by the surface-initiated-polymerization method. The dielectric constant of CoFe2O4/graphite composites is positive, while the dielectric constant of CoFe2O4/graphite-PPy composites is negative. The regulation of the negative dielectric constant of CoFe2O4/graphite-PPy metacomposites was accomplished by changing the content of CoFe2O4/graphite. The negative dielectric constant of 10.0 wt% CoFe2O4/graphite-PPy metacomposites reaches −1.82 × 103 in the measured frequency range. The crystal structure, chemical structure, and microstructure of all the samples were analyzed by the XRD, FT-IR, Raman, and SEM systematically. All the characterizations indicate that the CoFe2O4/graphite-PPy metacomposites were successfully fabricated. Meanwhile, the magnetic properties of the samples were reported in this work. The remanence, coercivity, and saturation magnetization is 10.50 emu g−1, 0.314 T, and 25.34 emu g−1 for CoFe2O4/graphite-PPy metacomposites with a CoFe2O4/graphite loading of 40.0 wt%. This work provides the guideline for fabrication of polymer-based metacomposites with tunable negative dielectric constant.

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The work is supported by the Research Starting Foundation of Shaanxi University of Science and Technology (grant no. 2019QNBJ-01), the Research Foundation for Thousand Young Talent Plan of Shaanxi province of China, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant no. 51972200), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant no. 51902192), the Natural Science Basic Research Program of Shaanxi (program no. 2022JQ-441), the Taif University Researchers Supporting Project number (TURSP-2020/267), Taif University, Taif, Saudi Arabia.

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  1. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Green Preparation and Functionalization for Inorganic Materials, Shaanxi University of Science & Technology, Xi’an, 710021, China

    Jiang Guo, Zhuoran Chen, Waras Abdul, Pei Zhang & Jianfeng Zhu

  2. Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University, Nasr City, Cairo, 11884, Egypt

    Zeinhom M. El-Bahy

  3. Key Laboratory of Materials Processing and Mold (Zhengzhou University), Ministry of Education, National Engineering Research Center for Advanced Polymer Processing Technology, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450001, China

    Hu Liu

  4. Department of Chemistry, College of Science, Taif University, P.O. Box 11099, Taif, 21944, Saudi Arabia

    Hala M. Abo-Dief, Khamael M. Abualnaja & Abdullah K. Alanazi

  5. College of Materials Science and Engineering, Taiyuan University of Science and Technology, Taiyuan, 030024, China

    Mina Huang

  6. CNPC Chuanqing Drilling Engineering Company Limited, Changqing Downhole Technology Company, Xi’an, 710021, China

    Guangming Hu

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Guo, J., Chen, Z., El-Bahy, Z.M. et al. Tunable negative dielectric properties of magnetic CoFe2O4/graphite-polypyrrole metacomposites. Adv Compos Hybrid Mater 5, 899–906 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42114-022-00485-4

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