Morphology and dopant influence electrical properties and stability of multiwalled carbon nanotube-polyaniline composites

Current Nanoscience

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 59-68

  Chen, Wen Yin ^a   Ghule, Anil Vithal ^a,b   Chang, Jia Yaw ^a   Ling, Yong Chien ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Hanyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Characterization; Electrical properties; Electron microscopy; Multiwalled carbon nanotube polyaniline composites; PANI structures; Thermal analysis

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES; ELECTRICAL PROPERTY; MULTI-WALLED; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBE/POLYANILINE COMPOSITES; THERMAL ANALYSIS;

AMINES; CARBON NANOTUBES; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRONS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MORPHOLOGY; POLYANILINE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

MULTI WALLED NANOTUBE; NANOCOMPOSITE; POLYANILINE;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROOM TEMPERATURE; THERMOSTABILITY; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 77950442149     PISSN: 15734137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157341310790226324     Document Type: Article

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