Multifunctional layer-by-layer carbon nanotube-polyelectrolyte thin films for strain and corrosion sensing

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 429-438

  Loh, Kenneth J ^a   Kim, Junhee ^a   Lynch, Jerome P ^a   Kam, Nadine Wong Shi ^a   Kotov, Nicholas A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORROSION; PH EFFECTS; POLYELECTROLYTES; STRAIN; THIN FILMS;

CARBON NANOTUBE CONCENTRATIONS; MULTIFUNCTIONAL MATERIALS; POLYELECTROLYTE MATRICES;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 33947149551     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/16/2/022     Document Type: Article

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