The application of composites based on recycled materials for electromagnetic field shielding

This paper presents the possibilities of using polymer-metal composites as electromagnetic shields. Recycled materials such as iron scale and nanocrystalline tapes were used to build the composites. In the course of the work, research was carried out into the effectiveness of shielding electromagnetic fields in the range from 40 Hz to 15 GHz. The shielding effectiveness was shown to be competitive to that of other composite materials based on non-metallic fillers and comparable to that of layered composites containing e.g. aluminum.