Feasible strategy for simultaneously achieving excellent frequency selective characteristic and ultralight mechanical properties.

Materials with both excellent frequency selective characteristic and ultralight mechanical properties are highly urgent demanded for its potential applications such as absorbing materials, artificial magnetic conductors, antenna and so on. However, although the research about materials with only excellent frequency selective characteristic or ultralight mechanical properties is advanced, in most cases, it is still a challenge that making a material possesses excellent frequency selective characteristic and ultralight mechanical properties simultaneously. So how to make the two properties achieving a high level simultaneously is a hot topic which remains to be solved. Herein, we proposed a novel and feasible strategy for achieving simultaneously excellent frequency selective characteristic and ultralight mechanical properties material. According to our strategy, the composite we designed behaviors as a FSS which can realize highly efficiency stop bands in 16.09-16.4GHz and 17.11-17.36GHz. At the same time, the composite can be regarded as an ultralight mechanical metamaterial. The relativity density of the composite can reduce to 431.99 Kg/m, which have a distinct advantage compared with the dielectric layers that conversional FSS used. Moreover, Its elasticity modulus can reach 112.25 MPa and its bending stiffness can reach 90.54 N/mm. These performances show that although the density of the composite is reduced, the composite can still keep well mechanical properties. The strategy we proposed gives a good solution to the problem existing in the materials which desire both excellent frequency selective characteristic and ultralight mechanical properties. The composite is a designing example which can be applied in engineering. So the strategy is a guideline for researchers to achieve composite which owns both excellent frequency selective characteristic and ultralight mechanical properties.