PH and electrical actuation of single walled carbon nanotube/chitosan composite fibers

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Ozarkar, Sukrut ^a   Jassal, Manjeet ^a   Agrawal, Ashwini K ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; AMINES; CARBON; CARBON FIBERS; CHITIN; CHITOSAN; DISPERSION (WAVES); DISPERSIONS; FIBERS; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTUBES; REINFORCED PLASTICS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); SPINNING (FIBERS); STRAIN RATE; SYNTHETIC FIBERS;

A STABLES; CHITOSAN FIBERS; CHITOSAN MATRIXES; COMPOSITE FIBERS; ELECTRIC VOLTAGES; ELECTRICAL ACTUATIONS; FUNCTIONALIZATION; FUNCTIONALIZED; FUNCTIONALIZED CARBON NANOTUBES; HIGH STRAIN RATES; PH SWITCHING; STRONG INTERACTIONS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 56449092663     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/17/5/055016     Document Type: Article

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