Fabrication and properties of aligned multiwalled carbon nanotube-reinforced epoxy composites

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2975-2983

  Cheng, Qunfeng ^a   Wang, Jiaping ^a   Jiang, Kaili ^a   Li, Qunqing ^a   Fan, Shoushan ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABS RESINS; CARBON CARBON COMPOSITES; CARBON FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; CARBON NANOTUBES; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; GRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; LASER INTERFEROMETRY; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTUBES; RESINS; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS;

CNT ARRAYS; ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES; EPOXY COMPOSITES; MECHANICAL AND PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; MULTIFUNCTIONAL MATERIALS; MULTIWALLED CNT; PURE EPOXIES; REINFORCED EPOXY COMPOSITES; THERMAL STABILITIES;

EPOXY RESINS;

EID: 56549111538     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/JMR.2008.0356     Document Type: Article

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