The radiation degradation of a nanotube-polyimide nanocomposite

Polymer Degradation and Stability

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 169-175

  Nielsen, Kresten L C ^a   Hill, David J T ^a   Watson, Kent A ^b   Connell, John W ^c   Ikeda, Shigetoshi ^d   Kudo, Hisaaki ^d   Whittaker, Andrew K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AEROSPACE   (United States)

^c NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; LaRC CP 2; Polyimide; SWNT; Tensile; UV Vis spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

DEGRADATION; NANOCOMPOSITES; PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE; RADIATION CHEMISTRY; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

ELECTRON-BEAM RADIATION; POLYIMIDE COMPOSITES; RADIATION DEGRADATION;

POLYIMIDES;

EID: 38149140291     PISSN: 01413910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymdegradstab.2007.10.010     Document Type: Article

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