Critical exponents of gelation and conductivity in polyacrylamide gels doped by multiwalled carbon nanotubes

Composite Interfaces

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 301-318

  Aktaş, Demet Kaya ^a   Evingür, Gülşen Akin ^a   Pekcan, Önder ^b  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b KADIR HAS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Acrylamide; Critical phenomena; Fluorescence; Hydrogel; Multiwalled carbon nanotubes; Percolation

Indexed keywords

AC ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ACRYLAMIDES; COMPOSITE GELS; CRITICAL EXPONENT; CRITICAL PHENOMENA; CRITICAL PHENOMENON; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; GEL FRACTION; GEL POINT; POLYACRYLAMIDE GELS; POLYACRYLAMIDES; RANDOM RESISTOR NETWORKS; STEADY-STATE FLUORESCENCE TECHNIQUES;

AMIDES; CARBON NANOTUBES; COAGULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FLUORESCENCE; GELATION; HYDROGELS; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); PNEUMATIC DRIVES; PULSE AMPLITUDE MODULATION; RESISTORS; SOLVENTS;

GELS;

EID: 77952355226     PISSN: 09276440     EISSN: 15685543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/092764410X495243     Document Type: Article

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