The effect of electrostatic and electrohydrodynamic forces on the chaining of carbon nanofibres in liquid epoxy

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volumn 43, Issue 17, 2010, Pages

  Sharma, A ^a   Bakis, C E ^a   Wang, K W ^b  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AC ELECTROOSMOSIS; AC FIELD; CARBON NANOFIBRES; CHAIN ASSEMBLIES; COMBINED EFFECT; FINITE ELEMENT MODELS; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; INTERMEDIATE FREQUENCIES; LIQUID VISCOSITY; LOW VISCOSITY; MULTIFUNCTIONAL NANOCOMPOSITES;

CARBON NANOFIBERS; ELECTROHYDRODYNAMICS; ELECTROSTATICS; FORECASTING; LIQUIDS; MORPHOLOGY; VISCOSITY;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 77951088674     PISSN: 00223727     EISSN: 13616463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/43/17/175402     Document Type: Article

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