Microwave absorption is a critical challenge with progression in electronics, where fine structural designing of absorbent materials plays an effective role in optimizing their microwave absorption properties. Here, we have developed FeO@C (FC) and Fe-FeO@C (FFC) hybrid nanorings via a hydrothermal method coupled with a chemical catalytic vapor deposition technique. FC and FFC hybrid nanorings have fine carbon coating while their size can easily be tunable in a certain range from 80-130 to 90-140 nm. The optimized FC and FFC hybrid nanorings bear minimum reflection loss (RL) values of -39.1 dB at 15.9 GHz and -32.9 dB at 17.1 GHz, respectively, whereas FFC shows an effective absorption bandwidth (RL values < -10 dB) ranged from 5.2 to 18 GHz. Such an enhanced microwave absorption performance of hybrid nanorings is mainly due to the suitable impedance characteristics, multilevel interfaces, and polarization features in nanorings. This work provides an approach to design hybrid materials having a complex structure to enhance the microwave absorption properties.

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The proportion of Fe2+ and Fe3+ in the Fe-based nanozymes is a key point in determining their catalytic activity. However, it is hard to adjust Fe2+/Fe3+ ratio in the nanozyme...

Carbon-based materials are typical and commercially active electrode for supercapacitors due to their advantages such as low cost, good stability and easy availability. In the light of energy storage, supercapacitors mechanism is classified into EDLCs (electrochemical double layer capacitors) and pseudocapacitors. Multidimensional carbon nanomaterials (active carbon, carbon nanotube, graphene, etc.), carbon-based composite and corresponding electrolyte are the critical and important factor in the eyes of researcher. In this minireview, we will discuss the storage mechanism and summarize recent developed novel carbon and carbon-based materials in supercapacitors. The techniques to design the novel nanostructure and high performance electrodematerials that facilitate charge transfer to achieve high energy and power densities will also be discussed.