Remotely actuated polymer nanocomposites - Stress-recovery of carbon-nanotube-filled thermoplastic elastomers

Nature Materials

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 115-120

  Koerner, Hilmar ^a   Price, Gary ^a   Pearce, Nathan A ^b   Alexander, Max ^c   Vaia, Richard A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSSLINKING; ELASTIC MODULI; MELTING; MORPHOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRAIN RATE; STRESS ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; THERMOPLASTIC ELASTOMERS; YIELD STRESS;

ACTUATED POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITES; JOULE EFFECT; MECHANICAL MOTION; STIMULI RESPONSIVE POLYMERS; STRESS RECOVERY;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

CARBON; ELASTOMER; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; MATERIALS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CARBON; ELASTOMERS; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POLYMERS;

EID: 0842343623     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1059     Document Type: Letter

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