Polymer-Mediated Alignment of Carbon Nanotubes under High Magnetic Fields

Advanced Materials

Volumn 15, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 1918-1921

  Garmestani, Hamid ^a,b   Al Haik, Marwan S ^a   Dahmen, Klaus ^c   Tannenbaum, Rina ^b   Li, Dongsheng ^a   Sablin, Simon S ^d   Yousuff Hussaini, M ^d  

^a FAMU FSU COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c Suntrans Inc   (United States)

^d FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; EPOXY RESINS; FRACTURE; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MICROSTRUCTURE; POLYMERS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

MAGNETIC FIELD ORIENTATION; POLYMER CHAINS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 0347591072     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.200304932     Document Type: Article

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