Unusual ignition behavior of polyurethane/carbon nanotube composites with a He-Ne laser excitation (632.8 nm) during micro-Raman spectroscopy

Carbon

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2191-2195

  Singamaneni, Srikanth ^a   Shevchenko, Valeriy ^b   Bliznyuk, Valery ^a  

^a WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF MACROMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Atomic force microscopy; Carbon composites; Carbon nanotubes; Raman spectroscopy; Scanning electron microscopy; Thermal conductivity

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CARBON NANOTUBES; HELIUM NEON LASERS; IGNITION; POLYURETHANES; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

CARBON COMPOSITES; MICRO-RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; POLYMER MATRIX; SYNERGISTIC EFFECTS;

COMPOSITE MATERIALS;

EID: 33745286817     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2006.03.006     Document Type: Article

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