Strong, tough, electrospun polymer-nanotube composite membranes with extremely low density

Advanced Functional Materials

Volumn 18, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 2618-2624

  Blond, David ^a   Walshe, William ^a   Young, Karen ^a   Blighe, Fiona M ^a   Khan, Umar ^a   Almecija, Dorothée ^a   Carpenter, Leslie ^a,b   McCauley, Joe ^a   Blau, Werner J ^a   Coleman, Jonathan N ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b DOW CORNING CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MEMBRANES; NANOPORES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTUBES; POLYMERS; ROTATION; SPINNING (FIBERS);

ELECTROSPUN; LOW DENSITY; NANO TUBE; POST-PRODUCTION; ROTATING DRUMS; ROTATION RATES;

COMPOSITE MEMBRANES;

EID: 52449116859     PISSN: 1616301X     EISSN: 16163028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.200701487     Document Type: Article

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