Relationship between dispersion metric and properties of PMMA/SWNT nanocomposites

Polymer

Volumn 48, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 4855-4866

  Kashiwagi, Takashi ^a   Fagan, Jeffrey ^a   Douglas, Jack F ^a   Yamamoto, Kazuya ^a   Heckert, Alan N ^a   Leigh, Stefan D ^a   Obrzut, Jan ^a   Du, Fangming ^b   Lin Gibson, Sheng ^a   Mu, Minfang ^b   Winey, Karen I ^b   Haggenmueller, Reto ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Nanocomposite; Particle dispersion metric

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

OPTICAL CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; PARTICLE DISPERSION METRIC; RELATIVE DISPERSION INDEX (RDI);

NANOCOMPOSITES;

CARBON; CONCENTRATION; DISPERSION; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; FLAMMABILITY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NANOCOMPOSITE; NANOTUBE; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE;

EID: 34447543998     PISSN: 00323861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2007.06.015     Document Type: Article

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