Interfacial characteristics of a carbon nanotube-polystyrene composite system

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 79, Issue 25, 2001, Pages 4225-4227

  Liao, Kin ^a   Li, Sean ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

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EID: 0035905209     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1428116     Document Type: Article

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