Wet to shrink: An approach to realize negative expansion upon wetting

Advanced Composite Materials

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 95-103

  Sun, L ^a   Huang, W M ^a,b  

^a SHENYANG JIANZHU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Contraction; Negative expansion; Swelling; Wetting

Indexed keywords

CONTRACTION; KEY PARAMETERS; NEGATIVE EXPANSION; ONE-DIMENSIONAL; SIMPLE APPROACH; SPECIAL PROPERTIES;

SHRINKAGE; WETTING;

SWELLING;

EID: 68349090313     PISSN: 09243046     EISSN: 15685519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156855109X428763     Document Type: Article

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