Viscoelasticity and thermal stability of polylactide composites with various functionalized carbon nanotubes

Polymer Degradation and Stability

Volumn 93, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1577-1584

  Wu, Defeng ^a   Wu, Liang ^a   Zhang, Ming ^a   Zhao, Yalan ^a  

^a YANGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Composites; Multi walled carbon nanotubes; Polylactide; Thermal stability; Viscoelasticity

Indexed keywords

CARBON CARBON COMPOSITES; CARBON FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; COLLOIDS; DISPERSION (WAVES); ELASTICITY; METALLIC MATRIX COMPOSITES; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOPORES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES; PERCOLATION (FLUIDS); RHEOLOGY; SULFATE MINERALS; SYSTEM STABILITY; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; VISCOSITY;

FUNCTIONALIZED CARBON NANOTUBES (F CNT); FUNCTIONALIZED MULTI-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES; INITIAL STAGES; LINEAR RHEOLOGY; MELT COMPOUNDING; PARALLEL PLATE RHEOMETERS; PERCOLATION THRESHOLDS; POLYLACTIDE (PLLA); SURFACE FUNCTIONALIZATION; THERMAL STABILITY; WEIGHT LOSSES;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 48549084826     PISSN: 01413910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymdegradstab.2008.05.001     Document Type: Article

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