Preparation and characterization of polyurethane/multiwalled carbon nanotube composites

Polymers and Polymer Composites

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 501-507

  Guo, Shuzhong ^a   Zhang, Chao ^a   Wang, Weizhi ^a   Liu, Tianxi ^a   Tjiu, Wuiwui Chauhari ^b   He, Chaobin ^b   Zhang, Wei De ^c  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

^c SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; DISPERSIONS; ELASTIC MODULI; NANOTUBES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TENSILE STRENGTH; TENSILE TESTING; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

CARBON-NANOTUBE COMPOSITES; ELONGATION AT BREAK; FINE DISPERSIONS; FRACTURE SURFACES; HOMOGENEOUS DISPERSIONS; IN-SITU POLYMERIZATION; INTERFACIAL ADHESIONS; SOLUTION CASTING;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

EID: 57749110569     PISSN: 09673911     EISSN: 14782391     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/096739110801600803     Document Type: Article

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