Low electrical percolation threshold in poly(ethylene terephthalate)/multi-walled carbon nanotube nanocomposites

European Polymer Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 928-936

  Logakis, Emmanuel ^a   Pissis, Polycarpos ^a   Pospiech, Doris ^b   Korwitz, Andreas ^b   Krause, Beate ^b   Reuter, Uta ^b   Pötschke, Petra ^b  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF POLYMER RESEARCH DRESDEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Electrical percolation; In situ synthesis; Nanocomposites; Poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET); Preparation procedure

Indexed keywords

AC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICAL PERCOLATION; ELECTRICAL PERCOLATION THRESHOLD; ELECTRICAL PROPERTY; FUNCTIONALIZED-MWCNT; IN-SITU POLYMERIZATION; IN-SITU SYNTHESIS; MASTERBATCH; MELT MIXING; PREPARATION PROCEDURE; PREPARATION PROCEDURES; S-PROCEDURES; SCANNING AND TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CARBON NANOTUBES; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ETHYLENE; NANOCOMPOSITES; PERCOLATION (COMPUTER STORAGE); PERCOLATION (FLUIDS); PERCOLATION (SOLID STATE); POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; POLYMERIZATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOLVENTS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

EID: 77950865887     PISSN: 00143057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eurpolymj.2010.01.023     Document Type: Article

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