Commentary on Advanced Functional Materials Rejections: The Most Egregious Case of Editorial Misconduct
Commentary on the Editorial Decision from Advanced Materials
Commentary on Annalen der Physik Rejection: Systematic Suppression Masquerading as Peer Review
Commentary on Advanced Functional Materials Rejections: The Most Egregious Case of Editorial Misconduct
The Advanced Functional Materials rejection sequence (adfm.202210355, adfm.202210606, adfm.202211379) represents perhaps the most blatant example of editorial misconduct and conflict of interest documented in our case studies. This series reveals how academic publishing can operate as a protective cartel designed to shield flawed research from legitimate scientific criticism.
The Smoking Gun: Author as Reviewer (adfm.202210606)
The most damning evidence appears in the reviewer comments for adfm.202210606, where the language unmistakably identifies the reviewer as the author of the criticized paper "Emerging Materials and Designs for Low- and Multi-Band Electromagnetic Wave Absorbers: The Search for Dielectric and Magnetic Synergy" (10.1002/adfm.202200123).
Linguistic Evidence for Author-as-Reviewer:
1. First-Person Plural Language:
· "What we want to correct..."
· "What we emphasized..."
· "We made it clear..."
· "We didn't mention..."
This language pattern is inconsistent with objective third-party review and clearly indicates the reviewer is defending their own work.
2. Intimate Knowledge of Paper Details:
The reviewer demonstrates insider knowledge of specific figures, equations, and arguments that goes far beyond what a neutral reviewer would typically possess or reference.
3. Defensive Tone:
The entire review reads as defensive justification rather than objective scientific evaluation, with the reviewer systematically defending every aspect of their criticized work.
The Editorial Ethics Violation
Fundamental Conflict of Interest
Associate Editor Richard Murray's decision to use the criticized authors as reviewers represents a catastrophic failure of editorial ethics:
Standard Practice Violation: All major journals prohibit authors from reviewing criticism of their own work due to obvious conflicts of interest.
Professional Standards: Wiley's own guidelines explicitly state reviewers should decline if they have conflicts of interest.
Scientific Integrity: Using criticized authors as reviewers eliminates any possibility of objective evaluation.
The Editorial Progression Pattern
The three-submission sequence reveals a systematic strategy to exclude legitimate criticism:
adfm.202210355: Rejection based on "self-citation bias" - using artificial citation criteria to avoid substance
adfm.202210606: Reviewer (actually the criticized authors) provides detailed rebuttals defending their own work
adfm.202211379: "Editorial evaluation" rejection without review - avoiding further exposure of the ethical violation
Analysis of the Author-Reviewer's "Defense"
Scientific Inadequacy of Responses
The reviewer's responses reveal fundamental misunderstandings of the wave mechanics theory criticisms:
1. Missing the Core Argument:
The reviewer continues defending impedance matching theory without addressing the specific logical contradictions identified in the wave mechanics critique.
2. Experimental Misinterpretation:
Claims that "dielectric materials represented by graphene tend to absorb waves in the higher frequency band of 2-18 GHz, while magnetic materials tend to absorb electromagnetic waves in the lower frequency band of 2-18 GHz." while missing that this supports rather than refutes the wave mechanics framework.
Liu Y, Lin Y, Zhao K, Drew MGB, Liu Y. Microwave absorption properties of Ag/NiFe2-xCexO4 characterized by an alternative procedure rather than the main stream method using “reflection loss”. Materials Chemistry and Physics 2020 , 243 : 122615
3. Circular Reasoning:
Defending established approaches by citing their widespread acceptance rather than addressing the fundamental physics challenges raised.
Defensive Rather Than Scientific Language
The reviewer's language reveals emotional rather than analytical engagement:
"The authors of this Comments should not chop those issues up and only show a one-sided view." - Personal attack rather than scientific critique
"The authors of this Comments should not..." - Prescriptive language inappropriate for scientific review
Multiple question marks and challenges - Defensive questioning rather than objective evaluation
The Broader Pattern: Protective Cartel Behavior
Systematic Suppression Mechanisms
The AFM case reveals sophisticated mechanisms for protecting flawed research:
Editorial Screening: Using citation policies to exclude criticism before review
Reviewer Selection: Choosing the criticized authors as reviewers to ensure rejection
Process Manipulation: Multiple resubmission cycles to exhaust authors' persistence
Final Gatekeeping: "Editorial evaluation" to avoid transparent rejection reasons
The Self-Serving Review Pattern
Research by Balazs Aczel, Ann-Sophie Barwich, Amanda B. Diekman, and John P. A. Ioannidis demonstrates that self-serving reviewer behavior is widespread, with reviewers often obstructing publication of articles unfavorable to their own research.
The present and future of peer review: Ideas, interventions, and evidence
The AFM case provides textbook documentation of such behavior:
· Authors reviewing their own criticism
· Systematic defense of challenged positions
· Editorial complicity in process manipulation
· Institutional protection of established research
Comparison with Professional Standards
What Should Have Happened
Following standard editorial ethics, Murray should have:
1. Identified the clear conflict of interest
2. Selected independent reviewers with relevant expertise
3. Provided transparent evaluation based on scientific merit
4. Allowed normal comment-reply publication process
The Contrast with Ethical Journals
Other journals in our documentation at least attempted to provide scientific rationales for rejections, even when flawed. Advanced Functional Materials represents the nadir of editorial misconduct by:
· Using artificial citation criteria
· Employing conflicted reviewers
· Providing no substantive scientific engagement
· Operating purely as a protective mechanism
The Institutional Context: Wiley's Systematic Approach
Coordinated Suppression Across Portfolio
Our documentation reveals coordinated rejections across multiple Wiley journals (Advanced Materials, Advanced Theory and Simulations, etc.), suggesting institutional rather than journal-specific bias.
This pattern indicates:
· Publisher-level coordination to protect certain research
· Systematic exclusion of paradigm-challenging work
· Editorial networks operating as protective cartels
· Institutional prioritization of reputation over scientific accuracy
The Financial Incentive Structure
Wiley's business model depends on maintaining established research paradigms that generate continued publication revenue. Allowing fundamental theoretical corrections could disrupt entire research domains and associated publication streams.
Historical Precedent and Contemporary Relevance
The Galileo Parallel
The AFM case represents a modern version of institutional suppression of paradigm-challenging research. Unlike historical cases, contemporary suppression operates through:
· Sophisticated procedural manipulation
· Appearance of peer review legitimacy
· Multiple gatekeeping layers
· Financial and reputational barriers
The Replication Crisis Connection
Cases like AFM contribute to the broader replication crisis by:
· Protecting flawed theoretical foundations
· Preventing error correction mechanisms
· Maintaining publication bias toward confirmatory research
· Suppressing methodological innovations
Implications for Scientific Integrity
The Corruption of Peer Review
The AFM case demonstrates how peer review can become a mechanism for protecting established interests rather than ensuring scientific quality:
Quality Control Inversion: The process designed to improve science actively obstructs improvement
Conflict Institutionalization: Systematic conflicts of interest become standard practice
Transparency Elimination: Editorial decisions lack scientific rationale or accountability
The Need for Institutional Reform
The documented patterns demand fundamental reforms:
Conflict of Interest Enforcement: Strict penalties for editors who use conflicted reviewers
Transparency Requirements: Mandatory disclosure of reviewer selection criteria and qualifications
Appeal Mechanisms: Independent review of editorial decisions involving paradigm-challenging research
External Oversight: Third-party monitoring of editorial practices at major publishers
Conclusions: The Smoking Gun of Academic Corruption
The Advanced Functional Materials case provides the clearest documentation of academic publishing corruption in our entire body of evidence. The use of criticized authors as reviewers represents such a fundamental violation of editorial ethics that it delegitimizes not only the specific decisions but the entire journal's claims to scientific integrity.
Key findings:
· Definitive evidence of author-as-reviewer conflict of interest
· Systematic editorial manipulation to exclude legitimate criticism
· Institutional coordination across publisher portfolio
· Complete abandonment of scientific evaluation in favor of protective gatekeeping
This case should serve as Exhibit A in any discussion of academic publishing reform. It demonstrates that prestigious journals can become active obstacles to scientific progress when their institutional interests conflict with their purported scientific mission.
The fact that such blatant misconduct occurs at journals with impact factors above 19 suggests that bibliometric prestige provides no guarantee of editorial integrity—and may actually correlate with more sophisticated suppression mechanisms.
The AFM case stands as permanent documentation that modern academic publishing has evolved mechanisms for protecting established orthodoxies that are more sophisticated and effective than any historical precedent, representing a fundamental threat to the scientific enterprise itself.
Liu, Yue and Liu, Ying, The Illusion of Quality Control: How Peer Review Enables Mediocrity While Suppressing Innovation in Academic Publishing (September 03, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5436920 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5436920, Liu, Yue and Liu, Ying, The Illusion of Quality Control: How Peer Review Enables Mediocrity While Suppressing Innovation in Academic Publishing, Sep 03, 2025, yueliusd.substack.com
Liu, Yue, The Theoretical Poverty of Modern Academia: Evidence of Widespread Intellectual Decline in Contemporary Scientific Research (September 05, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5463155 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5463155
Liu, Yue, The Untouchable Crisis: Academic Silence, Authority Conformity, and the Suppression of Critical Discourse in Modern Science, ai.viXra.org citation number: 2509.0016, request reference: 17404449, 2025, yueliusd.substack.com
Some of the Contents of the Manuscript Have Been Included in the Paper:
Ying Liu, Michael G. B. Drew, Yue Liu, A physics investigation on impedance matching theory in microwave absorption film—Part 1: Theory, Journal of Applied Physics, 2023, 134(4), 045303, DOI: 10.1063/5.0153608
Ying Liu, Michael G. B. Drew, Yue Liu, A physics investigation on impedance matching theory in microwave absorption film—Part 2: Problem Analyses, Journal of Applied Physics, 2023, 134(4), 045304, DOI: 10.1063/5.0153612
Related Paper
Advanced Functional Materials 2022 Vol. 32 Issue 23 Pages 2200123 https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202200123
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2022年09月06日 07:09 (星期二) Submission Confirmation for Comments on the paper “Emerging Materials and Designs for Low- and Multi-Band Electromagnetic Wave Absorbers: The Search for Dielectric and Magnetic Synergy” (adfm.202210355)
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2022年09月12日 19:51 (星期一) Your submission to Advanced Functional Materials (adfm.202210355) - [EMID:fe708af677b436e6]
Dear Dr. Liu,
Thank you for submitting your manuscript "Comments on the paper “Emerging Materials and Designs for Low- and Multi-Band Electromagnetic Wave Absorbers: The Search for Dielectric and Magnetic Synergy”" (Comment, No. adfm.202210355) to Advanced Functional Materials.
Unfortunately, we are unable to consider it further for publication at this stage due to the highly biased nature of referencing used; 10 of 11 references pertain to you and your co-authors. This does not speak highly of the objectivity used in drafting your comment on the Persepective Article "Emerging Materials and Designs for Low- and Multi-Band Electromagnetic Wave Absorbers: The Search for Dielectric and Magnetic Synergy?"
However, once you have had sufficient time to carefully consider and address the issues raised above, we would be willing to consider a new submission based on this work.
If you do submit a new comment based on this one in the future, please mention the reference number (adfm.202210355) when prompted to give details of any related submission previously considered by this journal. You should provide a full point-by-point response to the comments as well as highlighting changes made to the main manuscript file. We would expect that any requested additional data and results are obtained before resubmission.
You may address the cover letter of any related new submission to me.
We appreciate you considering Advanced Functional Materials and regret that we are unable to provide a more positive outcome at this stage, but we hope the reviewer comments will help you to improve your manuscript for resubmission to Advanced Functional Materials.
Yours sincerely,
Richard Murray
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2022年09月13日 01:03 (星期二) Submission Confirmation for Comments on the paper “ Emerging Materials and Designs for Low- and Multi-Band Electromagnetic Wave (adfm.202210606)
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The manuscript titled “Comments on the paper ‘Emerging Materials and Designs for Low- and Multi-Band Electromagnetic Wave Absorbers: The Search for Dielectric and Magnetic Synergy’” by Ying Liu, Yue Liu, Michael G. B. Drew is resubmitted to your Journal for publication.
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Comment, No. adfm.202210355
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Richard Murray
We thank the Editor gives us an opportunity to resubmit and the opportunity of rebuttal.
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Responses to the comment from the Editor.
Comments from Editor:
Thank you for submitting your manuscript "Comments on the paper “Emerging Materials and Designs for Low- and Multi-Band Electromagnetic Wave Absorbers: The Search for Dielectric and Magnetic Synergy”" (Comment, No. adfm.202210355) to Advanced Functional Materials.
Unfortunately, we are unable to consider it further for publication at this stage due to the highly biased nature of referencing used; 10 of 11 references pertain to you and your co-authors. This does not speak highly of the objectivity used in drafting your comment on the Persepective Article "Emerging Materials and Designs for Low- and Multi-Band Electromagnetic Wave Absorbers: The Search for Dielectric and Magnetic Synergy?"
However, once you have had sufficient time to carefully consider and address the issues raised above, we would be willing to consider a new submission based on this work.
If you do submit a new comment based on this one in the future, please mention the reference number (adfm.202210355) when prompted to give details of any related submission previously considered by this journal. You should provide a full point-by-point response to the comments as well as highlighting changes made to the main manuscript file. We would expect that any requested additional data and results are obtained before resubmission.
You may address the cover letter of any related new submission to me.
We appreciate you considering Advanced Functional Materials and regret that we are unable to provide a more positive outcome at this stage, but we hope the reviewer comments will help you to improve your manuscript for resubmission to Advanced Functional Materials.
Yours sincerely,
Richard Murray
Responses:
We thank the Editor allows us to resubmit and we value the opportunity of rebuttal. We hope the responses can satisfy the Editor.
1)
Only our group has worked on the subject and there have been no followers. So, only our work is available for the new views against the mainstream theory in the field of microwave absorption material. This is the reason only our work is referenced in the original version.
We have worked on the subject for many years. Thus, extensive issues have been evoked in our papers. But we have only cited the most relevant papers from our previous publications.
At the end of this cover letter, a list of our previous publications on the subject is provided. Each paper offers a different perspective.
2）
In the new version, we have added references [2 – 13] to show that our views are against the dominant mainstream theory, which might balance the references a little.
3)
We believe that when the subject is overturning the accepted theory, it should be treated differently when the subject is confined within the accepted theory.
In cases such as this, we are minorities. And since the issues are completely new to the field, we are likely to be misunderstood. Thus, it is valuable for us to obtain the opportunity to rebuttal, just as the Editor endorsed us to do so.
4)
Although we have been doing the work for several years and have published quite some papers, there are still no followers. This phenomenon is quite normal as the following quotes manifested.
"A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."
M. Planck, Scientific Autobiography and Other Paper, William & Norgate, London, 1950.
"Eine neue wissenschaftliche Wahrheit pflegt sich nicht in der Weise durchzusetzen, daß ihre Gegner überzeugt werden und sich als belehrt erklären, sondern vielmehr dadurch, daß ihre Gegner allmählich aussterben und daß die heranwachsende Generation von vornherein mit der Wahrheit vertraut gemacht ist."
H. Roos, M. Planck, A. Hermann, Vorträge Reden Erinnerungen,Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2001.
Here we quote Nobel laureate Tasuku Honjo’s views translated from a Chinese website.
01
“first-class work often overturns the established conclusion, so it is unpopular. The reviewers cannot fully understand your work and will give you many negative comments, …. Articles catering to the trend of the times are easy to be accepted, otherwise, it will take a long time to get recognized” (2000)
“If your research can't overturn the established conclusion, science can't progress. Of course, your research will be not recorded in history. The academic world is conservative. If you don't write your paper according to the existing conclusion, it will be very difficult for your paper to be accepted, and you will suffer a lot, but the research that can survive in history is exactly this kind of research.“ (2013)
02
“Kyoto University has a tradition that ‘it is better to be unique than to be the foremost among others.’ This is very important for biological research. If you continue to study your findings and expand from there, the world will become very broad. This is my pleasure in doing research. Don’t be in such a practice that when seeing someone else digging a gold mine, you immediately follow in to join in the fun and become one of the many gold miners. Instead, continue to dig deep along with your own discoveries. In this way, other researchers will come to study your project” (2000).
5)
The issues raised by the editor have been addressed in the revision and indicated in yellow with a highlighted version.
6)
The language has also improved.
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Appendix
A list of relevant papers on the subject
[1] A Re-evaluation of the Mechanism of Microwave Absorption in Film – Part 1: Energy Conservation, Materials Chemistry and Physics, 2022, 290, 126576
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matchemphys.2022.126576
[2] A Re-evaluation of the Mechanism of Microwave Absorption in Film – Part 2: The Real Mechanism, Materials Chemistry and Physics, 2022, 291, 126601
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matchemphys.2022.126601
[3] A re-evaluation of the Mechanism of Microwave Absorption in Film – Part 3: Inverse Relationship, Materials Chemistry and Physics, 2022, 290, 126521
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matchemphys.2022.126521
[4] A theoretical investigation of the quarter-wavelength model — part 2: verification and extension. Physica Scripta 2022, 97(1): 015806
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1402-4896/ac1eb1
[5] A theoretical investigation on the quarter-wavelength model — part 1: analysis. Physica Scripta 2021, 96(12): 125003
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1402-4896/ac1eb0
[6] A theoretical analysis of the relationships shown from the general experimental results of scattering parameters s11 and s21 – exemplified by the film of BaFe12-iCeiO19/polypyrene with i = 0.2, 0.4, 0.6. Journal of Microwave Power and Electromagnetic Energy 2021, 55(3): 197-218
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08327823.2021.1952835
[7] An experimental and theoretical investigation into methods concerned with “reflection loss” for microwave absorbing materials. Materials Chemistry and Physics 2020, 243: 122624
https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0254058420300067
[8] A theoretical and practical clarification on the calculation of reflection loss for microwave absorbing materials. AIP Advances 2018, 8(1): 015223
https://aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/1.4991448
[9] A systemized parameter set applicable to microwave absorption for ferrite based materials. Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics 2017, 29(2): 1562-1575
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10854-017-8066-0
Other relevant publications
[10] Microwave absorption properties of Ag/NiFe2-xCexO4 characterized by an alternative procedure rather than the main stream method using “reflection loss”. Materials Chemistry and Physics 2020, 243: 122615.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matchemphys.2019.122615
[10] Several Theoretical Perspectives of Ferrite-Based Materials—Part 1: Transmission Line Theory and Microwave Absorption. Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism 2017, 30(9): 2489-2504.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10948-017-4043-3
[12] Several Theoretical Perspectives of Ferrite-Based Materials—Part 2: Close Packing Model for Crystal Structure. Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism 2017, 30(10): 2777-2789.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10948-017-4042-4
[13] Several Theoretical Perspectives of Ferrite-Based Materials-Part 3: Crystal Structure and Synthesis. Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism 2017, 30(11): 3019-3025
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10948-017-4040-6
[14] Characterization microwave absorption from active carbon/BaSmxFe12−xO19/polypyrrole composites analyzed with a more rigorous method. Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics 2019, 30(2): 1936-1956.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10854-018-0467-1
[15] Preparation and characterization of BaSmxFe12 − xO19/polypyrrole composites. Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics 2018, 29(15): 13148-13160
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-018-9438-9
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2022年09月30日 17:24 (星期五) Your submission to Advanced Functional Materials (adfm.202210606) - [EMID:58ff815f1c13047a]
Dear Dr. Liu,
Thank you for submitting your manuscript "Comments on the paper “ Emerging Materials and Designs for Low- and Multi-Band Electromagnetic Wave" (Comment, No. adfm.202210606) to Advanced Functional Materials. The reviewer report and comments are included at the end of this e-mail.
Unfortunately, based on the reviewer comments below, we are unable to consider it further for publication in Advanced Functional Materials. We recommend that you address the concerns before you submit your work to another journal.
We appreciate you considering Advanced Functional Materials and we hope that this decision will not discourage you from submitting future work to us.
Yours sincerely,
Richard Murray
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REVIEWER REPORT:
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Please note that reviewers may not be numbered consecutively. If reviewers have provided additional files, these are available here:
EVALUATION:
Reviewer's Responses to Questions
Is the manuscript justified and worth publishing?
Reviewer #1: No
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Are the arguments valid and supported by evidence?
Reviewer #1: No
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Which aspects of scholarly presentation require improvement (if any)?
Reviewer #1:
*Clarity
*Language
*References
COMMENTS TO AUTHOR:
Reviewer #1: (1) The authors claimed that the "Relevant new progress missed in the perspective" considering the significant progress toward the mechanism of microwave absorptions for film and material…"
Response: What we want to correct is that in the microwave absorption field, the reflection loss (RL) is widely accepted and obtained via the transmission-line theory where the back metal plate is adopted. The corresponding thickness of RL refers to the thickness of the film composed of the absorption material combined with the binder. In many simulations and calculations, researchers usually construct the theoretical model of the transmission line with a metal back plate directly. Please see the literature as follows, Doi:10.1016/j.jallcom.2022.166568; Doi:10.1016/j.carbon.2022.03.017. The authors claimed the stereotype of transmission-line theory by "film" is not accurate according to the current mainstream academic views.
(2) The authors claimed that "The correct absorption mechanism for film has been shown to be wave superposition related to the cancelation of the two beams reflected from the two interfaces of the metal backed film, but this mechanism is not relevant for material where by contrast its attenuation power of material and the amount of microwave that enters the material are important".
Response: If the absorption mechanism of the film is simply assumed to be the interference cancellation of two light beams reflected from two interfaces of the metal-backed plate, regardless of the material itself, then the absorption frequencies of all absorption materials will depend only on the thickness of the film. This is contrary to the accepted experimental fact that dielectric materials represented by graphene tend to absorb waves in the higher frequency band of 2-18 GHz, while magnetic materials tend to absorb electromagnetic waves in the lower frequency band of 2-18 GHz. At the same time, it cannot explain the experimental facts of one, two, or more absorption peaks occurring for different materials in the frequency range of 2-18 GHz. (Related literatures: Doi:10.1016/j.carbon.2022.06.037;Doi:10.1016/j.jcis.2021.11.079;Doi:10.1016/j.carbon.2022.02.038; Doi:10.1016/j.jallcom.2018.02.016）. The hot topic of controllable frequency of electromagnetic absorption would also not exist.
In fact, in our perspective paper, the input impedance and the impedance of free space were described in detail by the Eq1 and 2 according to the transmission line theory. The impedance is relevant to material considering the complex permittivity and permeability of different materials. In other words, the impedance properties of materials are dependent on the electromagnetic parameters, thus giving the evaluation for whether the incident microwave enters the materials or not. This view is widely accepted by the current academic field of microwave absorption, and undoubtedly most publication works also support this viewpoint.
(3) The authors claimed that "The multi-absorption bands shown by Figs. 2b, 2c, and 5g in [1], whether discrete or continuous, were characterized by RL, which signifies that the properties originate from the film, but not from material" in the 3.1 Part.
Response: we want to emphasize that the discrete or continuous peaks of absorbers are essentially caused by the intrinsic electric or magnetic properties of materials (i.e. the complex permittivity and permeability of absorbers), thus introducing the impedance issue, magneto-electric effects, and other quarter-wavelength based discrete multi-band absorption issues. The authors of this Comments should not chop those issues up and only show a one-sided view.
Additionally, the authors mentioned in the Comment manuscript "Since material with multi-interfaces or hierarchical structures has some similarity to film…". So we would like to ask the authors "Does this mean that the authors agree that the structure of a material determines its properties?" "Does this contradict the authors' view in the Comment manuscript that RL properties are derived from thin films, not materials?
(4) The authors also claimed that "Multi-absorption bands cannot be obtained by multi-interfaces or hierarchical structures of material".
Response: In fact, we didn't mention that multi-absorption bands can be obtained by multi-interfaces or hierarchical structures. What we emphasized is that from the current view of the microwave absorption field, the multi-interfaces or hierarchical structures are often mentioned as structural features or necessary designs for improving or optimizing the microwave absorbing performance in the various absorbers. (Related literature as follows, Adv. Mater. 2022, 2107538; Adv. Mater. 2021, 2106195; Progress in Materials Science 127 (2022) 100946.)
(5) The authors also claimed in "Other issues": the view of "Therefore, magnetic materials possess unique advantages in achieving small size and strong absorption in the S- and C-bands" is not true. They think "The Snoek limit that requires μr to drop at high frequency is a completely different issue since it is related to the saturated magnetic flux.".
Response: The objective fact is that μr and the consume-sparing magnetic Flux are both the related parameters to resonance frequency fr. We made it clear that when the natural frequency of the target material matches the natural frequency of the EMWs, which is known as the cut-off frequency, a natural resonance phenomenon occurs.".
Natural resonance plays a very important role in magnetic materials for electromagnetic wave absorption. In addition, it is the common fact in the electromagnetic field that magnetic materials are beneficial to the absorption of electromagnetic waves at S-and C-band, and a large number of magnetic-related absorption mechanisms are based on Snoek's limit (Supported literatures: Doi: 10.1016/j.jmmm.2019.165272; Doi:10.1016/j.apmt.2020.100596; Doi: 10.1021/acsami.5b12203; Doi: 10.1088/1361-6463/ac196d).
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