Soft, highly conductive nanotube sponges and composites with controlled compressibility

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 2320-2326

  Gui, Xuchun ^a   Cao, Anyuan ^b   Wei, Jinquan ^a   Li, Hongbian ^b   Jia, Yi ^a   Li, Zhen ^a   Fan, Lili ^a   Wang, Kunlin ^a   Zhu, Hongwei ^a   Wu, Dehai ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

CNT sponges; Compressibility; Conductive nanocomposites; Electrical resistivity; Nanotubes

Indexed keywords

CNT SPONGES; CONDUCTIVE NANOCOMPOSITES; CONTROLLED SYNTHESIS; CROSS-LINKING PROCESS; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; FREE EXPANSIONS; HIGH FLEXIBILITY; LARGE STRAINS; POLYMER INFILTRATION; POROUS CARBONS; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; SPONGELIKE STRUCTURE; STRAIN SENSORS; STRUCTURAL ROBUSTNESS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL SCAFFOLDS; VOLUME SHRINKAGE;

CARBON NANOTUBES; COMPRESSIBILITY; NANOCOMPOSITES; SOLVENTS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS;

CARBON NANOTUBE; NANOCOMPOSITE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; MECHANICAL STRESS; MECHANICS; POROSITY;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; MECHANICAL PROCESSES; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOTUBES, CARBON; POROSITY; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 77951714342     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn100114d     Document Type: Article

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