It is still very challenging to effectively design nanocomposite microstructures with significantly improved electromagnetic interference shielding effectiveness (EMI SE). Herein, we developed a facile method for fabrication of molybdenum disulfide/graphene nanoplatelets (MoS2/GNPs) nanocomposites, in which GNPs are utilized as highly effective electrical transport materials, while MoS2 resolves the agglomeration problem of GNPs. GNPs also serve as an efficient cluster of electrical transport systems and dampen the incoming electromagnetic wave. Two types of samples are synthesized and compared in context of EMI SE values: physically mixed composite and layered samples. The sandwiched MoS2 between GNP layers showed an EMI SE of ∼24 dB, which was an almost 14% improvement relative to MoS2/GNPs nanocomposites exhibiting an EMI SE value of ∼21 dB, both containing 0.5 wt % GNPs. This work provides a new strategy for the design of multifunctional nanocomposites using the simple low-cost vacuum filtration method for EMI shielding for future applications.

Media discourse is powerful tool of making or breaking the image of any person, event or even idea among masses. Media houses deliberately employ different linguistic, rhetoric and emotional techniques to propagate their ideas in this age of information as well as misinformation. This study attempts to scrutinize print media news headlines by relating how different newspapers show similar event in different ways. The study was exploratory in nature and qualitative methodology was used to determine sample, gather data and further analyze it with narrative interpretations. 06 Pakistani newspapers were selected with equal number of English and Urdu newspapers to determine the sample of the study in form of news headlines. Data was analyzed through the technique of content analysis at textual, discursive and social practice level. Findings divulge that there is significant difference of linguistic and discursive markers among headlines of different newspapers. Certain level of ideology, power and hegemony factors were also found in the news of different newspapers. The apparent reason for using different linguistic and contextual techniques is to create entertainment, sympathy, embarrassment or amusement in the minds of the readers.