Preparation, crystallization, electrical conductivity and thermal stability of syndiotactic polystyrene/carbon nanotube composites

Carbon

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1434-1440

  Sun, Guoxing ^a,b   Chen, Guangming ^a   Liu, Zhengping ^b   Chen, Ming ^c  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BNU Key Laboratory of Environmentally Friendly and Functional Polymer Materials   (China)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIZATION TEMPERATURE; DEGRADATION TEMPERATURES; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; HOMOGENEOUS DISPERSIONS; N-METHYL-2-PYRROLIDINONE; NANOTUBE COMPOSITES; SYNDIOTACTIC POLYSTYRENES (SPS); SYNDIOTACTICS; THERMAL STABILITY; THERMODYNAMICALLY STABLE;

CARBON NANOTUBES; CRYSTALLITE SIZE; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); PHASE TRANSITIONS; POLYSTYRENES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION); THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

DISPERSIONS;

EID: 75749121358     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2009.12.037     Document Type: Article

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