Front cover image: Carbon-containing materials have emerged as promising candidates for high-temperature electromagnetic wave absorption applications. However, they still face several critical challenges, including inadequate antioxidant capability, limited mechanical reliability, and difficulties in achieving optimal impedance matching. In article number CEY270118, Fan et al. provide a comprehensive review of recent advances in carbon-containing absorbing materials, thoroughly elucidate their dielectric loss mechanisms, summarize effective strategies for performance optimization and principles of multi-scale structural design, and propose a novel mechanism to enable high-temperature, high-efficiency electromagnetic wave absorption.
Li et al. (2026) studied this question.