Construction of alternating multilayer films with stable absorption-dominated electromagnetic shielding performance and reinforced mechanical properties via interface engineering

As an ideal material to lessen electromagnetic pollution, absorption-dominated electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding composites still face the problems of complicated structure design and insufficient performance stability. Herein, an alternating multilayer film with stable absorption-dominated EMI shielding effectiveness (SE) and reinforced mechanical properties is fabricated by constructing hydrogen bonding between multilayers interface. When the layers increase to 4, benefiting from the construction of multilayer structure and the stronger interaction, the reflective shielding effectiveness decrease to 2.9 dB, the absorption coefficient of multilayer film increases from 0.13 to 0.52, the retention rate of EMI SE increases from 1.0 % to 97.6 % after bending 1000 cycles, and the tensile strength is enhanced from 5.7 MPa to 27.3 MPa. The calculated binding energies and the experimental results show that the interaction between Pluronic F127 anchored on the porous film and cellulose nanofibers entangled on the carbon nanotubes layer increases the interlayer interaction force and durability of EMI SE.