Fire properties of polymer nanocomposites

Solid Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 143, Issue , 2006, Pages 287-312

  Wang, D ^a   Wilkie, C A ^a  

^a Marquette University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; POLYMERS; SILICA; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

FIRE PROPERTIES; MULTIPLE WALL NANOTUBES; NANO SCALE; ONE DIMENSION; POLYHEDRAL OLIGOMERIC SILSESQUIOXANES; POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITE; SINGLE WALL; SPHERICAL PARTICLE;

NANOCOMPOSITES;

EID: 77949916368     PISSN: 09250042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5356-6_9     Document Type: Article

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