MoS2 nanoflower decorated porous Si3N4 ceramics were prepared by a combination of vacuum infiltration and hydrothermal reaction. Excellent electromagnetic wave absorption performance was achieved by constructing MoS2-Si3N4 heterostructures.
SiC nanowires (SiCnw), due to their excellent dielectric properties, are promising high-temperature absorbing materials. However, the mechanism of their high-temperature absorption still requires further research. Therefore, porous SiCnw/Si3N4 and SiC/Si3N4 ceramics with different SiC phase morphologies were fabricated using a simple precursor impregnation and pyrolysis method. The Fe impurity content of the Si3N4 powder raw material significantly affects the generation of SiC nanowires. When SiC exists in the form of nanowires, the excellent conductivity brought by the conductive network of the nanowires causes a significant response of the material’s permittivity to temperature. When the test temperature is room temperature, SiCnw/Si3N4 has excellent absorption performance with a minimum reflection loss of −29.75 dB at 2.16 mm and an effective absorption bandwidth of 3.72 GHz at 2.54 mm. As the test temperature increases to 300 °C, the effective absorption bandwidth of SiCnw/Si3N4 covers the entire X-band. The porous SiCnw/Si3N4 ceramics exhibit excellent electromagnetic wave absorption performance, demonstrating significant application potential for high-temperature environments.
Core–shell Si 3 N 4 @WS 2 porous ceramics with the wave-transmitting phase Si 3 N 4 as the core and the wave-loss phase WS 2 as the shell were constructed to realize excellent electromagnetic wave absorption performance.
Mesocarbon microbead-silicon carbide (MCMB-SiC) composites were prepared by hot-press sintering (2100 °C/40 MPa/1 h) with two different graphitized MCMBs as the second phase, which exhibited good self-lubricating properties. The effects of the graphitization degree of the MCMBs on the microstructure and properties of the composites were investigated contrastively. The results showed that the composites that added raw MCMBs with a low degree of graphitization had excellent self-sintering properties, higher densities, and better mechanical properties; by comparison, the composites that added mature MCMBs with a high degree of graphitization, which has regular and orderly lamellar structures, not only had good mechanical properties but also exhibited a lower and more stable dry friction coefficient (0.35), despite the higher wear rate (2.66 × 10−6 mm3·N−1·m−1). Large amounts of mature MCMBs were peeled off during the friction process to form a uniform and flat graphite lubricating film, which was the main reason for reducing the dry friction coefficient of the self-lubricating composites and making the friction coefficient more stable.