Cure behavior of epoxy/MWCNT nanocomposites: The effect of nanotube surface modification

Polymer

Volumn 49, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 3310-3317

  Abdalla, Mohamed ^a   Dean, Derrick ^a   Robinson, Pamela ^b   Nyairo, Elijah ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ALABAMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Cure kinetics; Epoxy nanocomposite

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; CARBON NANOTUBES; CURING; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; EPOXY RESINS; GELATION; GLASS TRANSITION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NANOCOMPOSITES; RATE CONSTANTS; SURFACE TREATMENT; YARN;

ACTIVATION ENERGIES (EA); CURE KINETICS; DIGLYCIDYL ETHER OF BISPHENOL-A; EPOXY NANOCOMPOSITES; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPIC; NANOTUBE DISPERSIONS; REACTION MECHANISM; REACTION STOICHIOMETRY;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

EPOXY RESIN; GLASS TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; NANOCOMPOSITE; SURFACE MODIFICATION;

EID: 45649083687     PISSN: 00323861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2008.05.016     Document Type: Article

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