Fabrication and characterization of reaction bonded silicon carbide/carbon nanotube composites

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 21, 2005, Pages 3962-3965

  Thostenson, Erik T ^a   Karandikar, Prashant G ^b   Chou, Tsu Wei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b M Cubed Technologies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERAMIC MATRIX COMPOSITES; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; MELT SPINNING; SILICON CARBIDE; STIFFNESS;

ENGINEERING COMMUNITIES; VOLUME FRACTIONS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 27644590200     PISSN: 00223727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/38/21/020     Document Type: Article

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