Processing of dispersed and aligned multi-walled carbon nanotubes in polyvinylidene fluoride

Journal of Advanced Materials

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 24-31

  Peng, Kern ^a   Hornbergera, Lee ^b   Nguyena, Cattien V ^c   Sopory, Umesh ^d  

^a Santa Clara University   (United States)

^b BAE SYSTEMS   (United States)

^c ELORET CORPORATION   (United States)

^d ASUK Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRUSION; HEAT TREATMENT; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); NANOCOMPOSITES; TENSILE STRENGTH; VINYL RESINS;

POLYVINYLIDENE FLUORIDE (PVDF); UNIAXIAL ALIGNMENT; UNIFORM DISPERSION;

POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES;

EID: 34147127522     PISSN: 10709789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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