Regulatable Phase Manipulation-Enhanced Polarization and Conductance Loss Enabling Hierarchical 3D Microsphere-like MoS2 with Efficient Microwave Absorption

Molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) has become a new type of microwave absorption (MA) material due to the abundant functional groups and defects, high polarization effect, and controllable structural design. However, the development of MoS2 has been limited by its inherently low conductance losses and imperfect impedance matching. This study employs ammonium ion (NH4+) intercalation as a phase manipulation strategy to enhance dielectric loss and form heterogeneous structures by incorporating highly conductive 1T phase into the 2H-MoS2 crystal phase. Additionally, the implementation of CTAB as a soft template agent for constructing layered three-dimensional microsphere structures improves impedance matching. The experimental findings demonstrate that the MA performance of MoS2 can be effectively regulated by controlling the 1T phase content and morphological structure design. It is worth noting that A-MoS2-2 possesses excellent multifrequency absorption capability. A-MoS2-2 has a minimum reflection loss (RL) of −53 dB at a coating thickness of 1.99 mm and an effective absorption bandwidth (EAB) of 5.6 GHz at a thinner coating thickness of 1.77 mm. This work improves the MA properties of MoS2 by introducing metallic phases and unique structural design, which opens up new ideas for the development of MA materials.