Strong and ductile poly(vinyl alcohol)/graphene oxide composite films with a layered structure

Carbon

Volumn 47, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 3538-3543

  Xu, Yuxi ^a   Hong, Wenjing ^a   Bai, Hua ^a   Li, Chun ^a   Shi, Gaoquan ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENES; HIGH MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; HOMOGENEOUS DISPERSIONS; INTERFACIAL INTERACTION; LARGE ELONGATION; LAYERED STRUCTURES; OXIDE COMPOSITES; TENSILE YIELD STRENGTH; VACUUM FILTRATION; YOUNG'S MODULUS;

FILM PREPARATION; GRAPHITE; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; OXIDE FILMS; POLYMER FILMS; POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES; TENSILE STRENGTH;

COMPOSITE FILMS;

EID: 70349095482     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2009.08.022     Document Type: Article

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