Super resilience of a compacted mixture of natural graphite and agglomerated carbon nanotubes under cyclic compression

Carbon

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 309-312

  Wei, Tong ^a   Wang, Kai ^a   Fan, Zhuangjun ^a   Yan, Jun ^a   Qian, Weizhong ^b   Wei, Fei ^b  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPACTED MIXTURES; CYCLIC COMPRESSION; DAMPENING DEVICE; EXPANSION RATIO; MECHANICAL PERFORMANCE; NATURAL GRAPHITE; PRESSURE RANGES;

CARBON NANOTUBES; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; GRAPHITE; NANOCOMPOSITES;

BALL MILLING;

EID: 70350007159     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2009.09.045     Document Type: Letter

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