Strategies for dispersing carbon nanotubes in highly viscous polymers

Journal of Materials Chemistry

Volumn 15, Issue 24, 2005, Pages 2349-2352

  Grossiord, Nadia ^a   Loos, Joachim ^a   Koning, Cor E ^a,b  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; CRYSTAL LATTICES; DISPERSIONS; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; GRAPHITE; LATEXES; POLYMERS; VISCOSITY;

ALLOTROPIC CARBON; MULTI-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWNT); SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWNT); VISCOUS POLYMERS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 21644476789     PISSN: 09599428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b501805f     Document Type: Article

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