Rheological properties and percolation in suspensions of multiwalled carbon nanotubes in polycarbonate

Rheologica Acta

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 943-959

  Abbasi, Samaneh ^a   Carreau, Pierre J ^a   Derdouri, Abdessalem ^a   Moan, Michel ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE OCCIDENTALE   (France)

Author keywords

Electrical percolation; Filled polymer; Multiwalled carbon nanotube; Polycarbonate; Rheological percolation; Storage modulus; Suspension; Thermal conductivity percolation

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL PERCOLATION; FILLED POLYMER; FILLED POLYMERS; RHEOLOGICAL PERCOLATION; STORAGE MODULI;

CARBON NANOTUBES; CONDUCTING POLYMERS; ELASTIC MODULI; NANOCOMPOSITES; PERCOLATION (COMPUTER STORAGE); PERCOLATION (FLUIDS); PERCOLATION (SOLID STATE); RHEOLOGY; SOLVENTS; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMOANALYSIS;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

EID: 70350574018     PISSN: 00354511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00397-009-0375-7     Document Type: Article

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