Fiber-content dependency of the optical transparency and thermal expansion of bacterial nanofiber reinforced composites

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 88, Issue 13, 2006, Pages

  Nogi, Masaya ^a   Ifuku, Shinsuke ^a   Abe, Kentaro ^a   Handa, Keishin ^b   Nakagaito, Antonio Norio ^c   Yano, Hiroyuki ^c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACRYLICS; CELLULOSE; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; THERMAL EXPANSION; TRANSPARENCY;

BACTERIAL CELLULOSE; NANOFIBERS; OPTICAL TRANSPARENCY; REINFORCED COMPOSITES;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

ACRYLIC COMPOUNDS; CELLULOSE; FIBERS; THERMAL EXPANSION; TRANSPARENCE;

EID: 33645500587     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2191667     Document Type: Article

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