Low percolation transitions in carbon nanotube networks dispersed in a polymer matrix: Dielectric properties, simulations and experiments

Nanotechnology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Simoes, Ricardo ^a,b   Silva, Jaime ^a   Vaia, Richard ^c   Sencadas, Vítor ^a   Costa, Pedro ^a   Gomes, João ^a,d   Lanceros Méndez, Senentxu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^b Instituto Politcnico do Cvado e do Ave   (Portugal)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d CeNTI Centre for Nanotechnology and Smart Materials   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; CERAMIC CAPACITORS; CONDUCTING POLYMERS; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDES; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METALLIC MATRIX COMPOSITES; NANOCOMPOSITES; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PERCOLATION (SOLID STATE); PERMITTIVITY; POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES; SOLVENTS;

CAPACITOR NETWORKS; CARBON NANOTUBE NETWORKS; CONDUCTIVE FILLERS; CRITICAL CONCENTRATIONS; DIELECTRIC CONSTANTS; DIELECTRIC POLYMERS; DIELECTRIC STRENGTHS; ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; NUMERICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL STUDIES; PERCOLATION THRESHOLDS; PERCOLATION TRANSITIONS; SIMULATION RESULTS; VINYLIDENE FLUORIDES;

PERCOLATION (FLUIDS);

CARBON NANOTUBE; NANOCOMPOSITE; POLYMER; VINYLIDENE FLUORIDE;

ARTICLE; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; DISPERSION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SIMULATION;

EID: 58149236800     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/20/3/035703     Document Type: Article

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