Viscoelasticity of single wall carbon nanotube suspensions

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 16, 2004, Pages

  Hough, L A ^a   Islam, M F ^a   Janmey, P A ^a   Yodh, A G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; ELASTICITY; PERCOLATION (SOLID STATE); STRAIN MEASUREMENT; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; SUSPENSIONS (COMPONENTS); VISCOELASTICITY;

ACQUEOUS SUSPENSIONS; RIGID ROD NETWORKS; SINGLE WALL CARBON NANOTUBES (SWNT); SOLIDLIKE SAMPLES;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 19644401509     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.168102     Document Type: Article

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