Investigations on natural rubber filled with multiwall carbon nanotubes

Composite Interfaces

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 215-228

  Kolodziej, Mélanie ^a   Bokobza, Liliane ^a   Bruneel, Jean Luc ^b  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Elastomers; Interfaces; Mechanical properties; Reinforcement

Indexed keywords

ELASTOMERS; MEASUREMENT THEORY; MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; REINFORCEMENT; STRESS-STRAIN CURVES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

INTERFACIAL INTERACTIONS; MOLECULAR INVESTIGATIONS;

RUBBER;

EID: 34547526318     PISSN: 09276440     EISSN: 15685543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156855407780340304     Document Type: Article

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