The effect of carbon nanotube aspect ratio and loading on the elastic modulus of electrospun poly(vinyl alcohol)-carbon nanotube hybrid fibers

Carbon

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2571-2578

  Wong, Kenneth Kar Ho ^a   Zinke Allmang, Martin ^a   Hutter, Jeffery L ^a   Hrapovic, Sabahudin ^b   Luong, John H T ^b   Wan, Wankei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE VALUES; CARBON NANOTUBE HYBRIDS; CNT DISPERSION; CNT FIBERS; COMPOSITE MATRICES; ELECTROSPINNING PROCESS; ELECTROSPUN; FIBER DIAMETERS; HYBRID FIBER; INDIVIDUAL FIBERS; LIGNOSULFONIC ACID; NONUNIFORM; REINFORCEMENT EFFECTS; SODIUM SALT; STRESS TRANSFER EFFICIENCY; TEM; THEORETICAL PREDICTION;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CARBON FIBERS; CARBON NANOTUBES; ELASTIC MODULI; ELECTROSPINNING; FIBERS; PRESSURE DROP; REINFORCEMENT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ASPECT RATIO;

EID: 67649859290     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2009.05.006     Document Type: Article

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