Investigation of liquid sensing mechanism of poly(lactic acid)/multi-walled carbon nanotube composite films

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Kobashi, Kazufumi ^a   Villmow, Tobias ^a   Andres, Timo ^a   Häuler, Liane ^a   Pötschke, Petra ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF POLYMER RESEARCH DRESDEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL RESISTANCE CHANGE; INDUCED CRYSTALLIZATION; MATRIX; MULTI-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES; NETWORK STRUCTURES; PERMEATION COEFFICIENTS; POLY(LACTIC ACID); POLYLACTIC ACIDS; RESULTING RESISTANCE; SENSING MECHANISM; SOLUBILITY PARAMETERS; SOLVENT CONTENT; SOLVENT MOLECULES; SOLVENT TRANSPORT; STRUCTURAL VARIATIONS;

ACID RESISTANCE; BODY FLUIDS; CARBON FILMS; CARBON NANOTUBES; COMPOSITE FILMS; CONDUCTING POLYMERS; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; LACTIC ACID; LIQUIDS; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); ORGANIC ACIDS; POLYMERS; SOLVENTS; SORPTION;

POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES;

EID: 68549101971     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/18/3/035008     Document Type: Article

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