Influence of carbon nanotube clustering on the electrical conductivity of polymer composite films

Express Polymer Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 292-299

  Aguilar, J O ^a,b   Bautista Quijano, J R ^a   Aviles F ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA DE YUCATÁN   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE QUINTANA ROO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Clustering; Electrical conductivity; MWCNT; Percolation; Polymer composites

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951055322     PISSN: 1788618X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3144/expresspolymlett.2010.37     Document Type: Article

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