Fabrication and mechanical properties of well-dispersed multiwalled carbon nanotubes/epoxy composites

Composites Science and Technology

Volumn 67, Issue 15-16, 2007, Pages 3331-3337

  Guo, Peng ^a   Chen, Xiaohong ^a   Gao, Xinchun ^a   Song, Huaihe ^a   Shen, Heyun ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

A. Polymer matrix composites (PMCs); B. Mechanical properties; Carbon nanotubes

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC MODULI; EPOXY RESINS; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; MOLDING; MORPHOLOGY; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); NANOCOMPOSITES; PLASTIC CASTINGS; STRAIN; TENSILE STRENGTH; ULTRASONICS;

CAST MOLDING METHOD; FRACTURE STRAIN;

POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES;

CARBON; COMPOSITE; ELASTIC MODULUS; EPOXY RESIN; FRACTURE; LOADING (TESTING); MATRIX; MECHANICAL PROPERTY; MOLDING; MORPHOLOGY; NANOTUBE; STRAIN; STRENGTH; TENSILE PROPERTY;

EID: 35248823552     PISSN: 02663538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compscitech.2007.03.026     Document Type: Article

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