Radiation vulcanization of natural rubber latex loaded with carbon nanotubes

Fullerenes Nanotubes and Carbon Nanostructures

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 56-71

  Atieh, Muataz Ali ^a   Nazir, Nazif ^b   Yusof, Faridah ^a   Fettouhi, Mohammed ^a   Ratnam, Chantara Thevy ^c   Alharthi, Mamdouh ^a   Abu Ilaiwi, Faraj A ^a   Mohammed, Khalid ^b   Al Amer, Adnan ^a  

^a KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

^b INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^c MALAYSIAN NUCLEAR AGENCY   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Nanocomposite; Natural rubber; Radiation vulcanization

Indexed keywords

CASTING METHOD; ELECTRON BEAM IRRADIATION; ELONGATION AT BREAK; L-MATRIX; NATURAL RUBBER; NATURAL RUBBER LATEX; TEAR STRENGTH; TENSILE MODULI;

ELASTIC MODULI; ELECTRON BEAMS; LATEXES; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; NANOCOMPOSITES; RUBBER; TENSILE STRENGTH; VULCANIZATION;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 77951248572     PISSN: 1536383X     EISSN: 15364046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15363830903291572     Document Type: Article

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