Multiwall carbon nanotubes enhance the fatigue performance of physiologically maintained methyl methacrylate-styrene copolymer

Carbon

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2098-2104

  Marrs, Brock ^a   Andrews, Rodney ^a   Pienkowski, David ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPOLYMERS; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES; POLYSTYRENES;

CYCLIC DEFORMATION; FATIGUE PERFORMANCE; MICROSCOPIC MECHANISMS; NANOSCALE DIMENSIONS;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

EID: 34547778548     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2007.05.013     Document Type: Article

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