Nanofibre-assisted alignment of carbon nanotubes in macroscopic polymer matrix via a scaffold-based method

Express Polymer Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 47-53

  Chang, Z J ^a   Zhao, X ^a   Zhang, Q H ^a   Chen, D J ^a,b  

^a State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials   (China)

^b DONGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Alignment; Carbon nanotubes; Electrospinning; Nanocomposites; Nanofibres

Indexed keywords

EID: 72249117571     PISSN: 1788618X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3144/expresspolymlett.2010.8     Document Type: Article

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