Structural and electronic properties of carbon nanotube-reinforced epoxy resins

Nanoscale

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 385-388

  Suggs, Kelvin ^a   Wang, Xiao Qian ^a  

^a CLARK ATLANTA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURED EPOXY RESINS; CURING AGENTS; DISPERSION MECHANISMS; FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATION; FUNCTIONALIZED; INTERFACIAL STABILITIES; METALLIC TUBES; MOLECULAR LEVELS; NANO-REINFORCED COMPOSITES; OPTIMAL STRUCTURES; REINFORCED EPOXY; SIMULATION STUDIES;

CARBON NANOTUBES; CURING; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; REINFORCED PLASTICS; RESINS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EPOXY RESINS;

CARBON NANOTUBE; EPOXY RESIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EPOXY RESINS; NANOTUBES, CARBON; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 77953652431     PISSN: 20403364     EISSN: 20403372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b9nr00306a     Document Type: Article

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