Functionalization of multiwalled carbon nanotubes with polystyrene under atom transfer radical polymerization conditions

Carbon

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 152-159

  Wu, Hui Xia ^a,b   Tong, Rui ^a   Qiu, Xue Qiong ^a   Yang, Hai Feng ^b   Lin, Yang Hui ^a   Cai, Rui Fang ^a   Qian, Shi Xiong ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOM TRANSFER RADICAL POLYMERIZATION; CATALYSTS; GRAFT COPOLYMERS; POLYSTYRENES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS;

LINEAR POLYSTYRENE (PS); OPEN-APERTURE Z-SCAN; OPTICAL LIMITING PROPERTIES; WELL-DISPERSED SOLUTIONS;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

EID: 34347364651     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2006.07.011     Document Type: Article

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