Aiming at the disadvantages
of high cost, complex processes, low
yield, and narrow bandwidth of carbon-based microwave absorbing materials,
this paper provides a novel and efficient method for synthesizing
metal oxide/carbonized bamboo fibers using renewable natural bamboo
fibers as a carbon source. The results suggested that the metal oxides
such as NiO and Fe3O4 were uniformly dispersed
on the carbonized bamboo fibers and proved that the dielectric component
NiO and magnetic component Fe3O4 can significantly
improve the microwave absorption performance of the carbonized bamboo
fibers. As expected, the NiO/carbonized bamboo fibers showed excellent
microwave absorption performance due to the appropriate complex permittivity,
high impedance matching, and attenuation coefficient. A wide effective
bandwidth of 6.4 GHz with 2.2 mm thickness is achieved, covering the
entire Ku-band. Remarkably, the reflection loss (RL) values less than
−10 dB covered the whole X-band at a thickness of 3.0 mm. This
work reveals the potential of carbonized bamboo fibers-based composite
as an economic and broadband microwave absorbent and offers a new
strategy for designing promising microwave absorption materials.