Mechanical and morphological characterization of polymer-carbon nanocomposites from functionalized carbon nanotubes

Carbon

Volumn 42, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 2849-2854

  Paiva, M C ^a,c   Zhou, B ^a,b   Fernando, K A S ^a,b   Lin, Y ^a,b   Kennedy, J M ^a   Sun, Y P ^a,b  

^a Clemson University   (United States)

^b CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

A. Carbon composites, Carbon nanotubes; C. Electron microscopy, Raman spectroscopy; D. Mechanical properties

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBES; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; POLYMERS; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CARBON COMPOSITES; MULTIPLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWNT); NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS; POLY (VINYL ALCOHOL);

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 4444253703     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2004.06.031     Document Type: Article

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