We demonstrated the desirable microwave absorption properties in a 3D Ni@C/polystyrene (PS) sphere metacomposite, originated from the electromagnetic transform between the permittivity and the permeability. The metacomposite is composed of an array of millimetric PS spheres coated by highperformance Ni@C nanocapsule microwave absorbents. Such a phenomenon is caused by the nearfield electromagnetic interaction, modeled by a theoretical simulation, resulting in the reciprocal resonances for the dielectric and magnetic loss factors. The resonance frequencies are proportional to the PS sphere size. This study provides a bottomup strategy to fabricate the metacomposite and meanwhile has important implications in understanding the electromagnetic transformation.
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