Electrical conductivities of composites with aligned carbon nanotubes

Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 2518-2524

  Li, Chunyu ^a   Chou, Tsu Wei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; composites; Electrical conductivity; Modeling; Percolation

Indexed keywords

ALIGNED CARBON NANOTUBES; ALIGNED NANOTUBES; COMPOSITES; DEGREE OF ALIGNMENTS; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; INSULATING MATRIX; MODELING; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; NANOTUBE ALIGNMENT; NANOTUBE ORIENTATION; NANOTUBE-BASED COMPOSITES; PERCOLATION; PERCOLATION MODELS;

ALIGNMENT; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SOLVENTS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 67650797253     PISSN: 15334880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1166/jnn.2009.456     Document Type: Article

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