Effect of carbon nanotubes and their dispersion on thermal curing of polyimide precursors

Polymer Degradation and Stability

Volumn 95, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1672-1678

  Tang, Qing Yuan ^a   Chen, Jie ^a   Chan, Y C ^a   Chung, C Y ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Curing; Distribution; Fluorescence; Polyimide carbon nanotube composite; Thermal imidization

Indexed keywords

CURING PROCESS; CYCLODEHYDRATION; DECOMPOSITION TEMPERATURE; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETERS; DISPERSANTS; FLUORESCENCE SPECTRA; IMIDIZATION; IMIDIZATION TEMPERATURE; LIGHT MICROSCOPY; NANOTUBE COMPOSITES; POLY(AMIC ACID); POLYIMIDE PRECURSORS; POLYIMIDE/CARBON NANOTUBE COMPOSITE; PRECURSOR FILMS; THERMAL CURING; THERMAL IMIDIZATION; TIME CONTROL; UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION;

ACIDS; CARBON FILMS; CURING; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; DISPERSION (WAVES); DISPERSIONS; FLUORESCENCE; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; POLYIMIDES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 77955517689     PISSN: 01413910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymdegradstab.2010.05.023     Document Type: Article

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