Graphene-doped high-efficiency absorbing material: C-Mn0.5Zn0.5Fe2O4@PDA

MnZn ferrites and their magnetic, electrical, and optical properties make them highly suitable in a number of applications. These ferrites are used in electronic applications, magnetic fluids, and household appliances such as washing machines, refrigerators, and microwave ovens. This paper focuses on a hydrothermal method used to prepare a bayberry spherical manganese–zinc ferrite (Mn 0.5 Zn 0.5 Fe 2 O 4 ), its surface was coated with dopamine (Mn 0.5 Zn 0.5 Fe 2 O 4 @PDA) and then carbonized to obtain the core–shell structure C-Mn 0.5 Zn 0.5 Fe 2 O 4 @PDA. Preliminary results show that carbon-coated manganese–zinc ferrite with saturation magnetic properties and coercivity increased from 99 emu and 66.01 Oe to 138 emu and 104.85 Oe, respectively. In addition, the carbonized Mn 0.5 Zn 0.5 Fe 2 O 4 @PDA (C-Mn 0.5 Zn 0.5 Fe 2 O 4 @PDA) exhibited favorable microwave absorbing performance with minimum reflection loss (RL min ) of − 17.56 dB and also revealed that the broadest effective absorption bandwidth (RL min  ≤ − 10 dB) 5.36 GHz (11.70–17.06 GHz) can be achieved at 2.0 mm.