China Plastics ›› 2022, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (9): 46-52.DOI: 10.19491/j.issn.1001-9278.2022.09.007

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Electromagnetic characteristics of copper⁃powder⁃doped polyurethane coating and absorbing properties of its coated fabric

ZHANG Mengxing2(), LIU Rangtong1,3,4(), LI Liang2,3,4, LI Shujing1,3,4, LIU Shuping1,3,4   

  1. 1.Fashion Technology College,Zhongyuan University of Technology,Zhengzhou 451191,China
    2.Textile College,Zhongyuan University of Technology,Zhengzhou 451191,China
    3.Collaborative Innovation Center of Textiles and Clothing in Henan Province,Zhengzhou 451191,China
    4.Henan Province Key Laboratory of Functional Textile Materials,Zhengzhou 451191,China
  • Received:2022-05-05 Online:2022-09-26 Published:2022-09-26

Abstract:

An absorbing coating fabric was fabricated by coating a micron⁃copper⁃powder⁃doped polyurethane (PU) layer on the cotton fabric. The structure and performance of the coated fabric were investigated using scanning electron microscope, infrared spectrum, and vector network analyzer. The results indicated that the real and imaginary parts of the dielectric constant increase in the band range of 8~13 GHz with an increase in the copper powder content in the coating. This suggests that the copper powder generated good dielectric properties for the coating due to the presence of polarization under the applied electric field, producing dielectric loss to the electromagnetic wave. Copper powders do not belong to a magnetic loss material, resulting in a small magnetic loss to electromagnetic wave. The absorption and electromagnetic shielding performance of the coating materials were weak at a small weight fraction of copper powder (3 wt%). When the content of copper powder increased from 5 wt% to 11 wt%, the lowest reflection losses of the coated fabric were -20.4, -28.3, -25.6 dB at 9.0, 10.5, 12.8 GHz, respectively, and its effective absorption bandwidths were 0.2, 1.3, 1.1 GHz. The electromagnetic shielding efficiency increased from 12.24, 16.59, 21.1 to 25.92 dB.

Key words: polyurethane coating, micro copper powder, cotton fabric, dielectric constant, magnetic permeability, reflection loss

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