Functionalized few-walled carbon nanotubes for mechanical reinforcement of polymeric composites

ACS Nano

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1057-1062

  Hou, Ye ^a   Tang, Jie ^b   Zhang, Hongbo ^a   Qian, Cheng ^a   Feng, Yiyu ^a   Liu, Jie ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

FWNTs; PVA; Young's modulus

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION OF; FEW-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES; FUNCTIONALIZED; FWNTS; MECHANICAL REINFORCEMENT; NANOTUBE-BASED COMPOSITES; POLYMER COMPOSITE; POLYMERIC COMPOSITES; PROPERTIES OF COMPOSITES; PVA; REINFORCING FILLERS; YOUNG'S MODULUS;

CARBON FILMS; COMPOSITE FILMS; COMPOSITE MICROMECHANICS; ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTICITY; FUNCTIONAL POLYMERS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); POLYMER FILMS; POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES; POLYMERS; REINFORCEMENT; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

CARBON NANOTUBES;

CARBON NANOTUBE; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS; MATERIALS TESTING; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY; TENSILE STRENGTH; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; CRYSTALLIZATION; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYMERS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 66949146431     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn9000512     Document Type: Article

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