Electric field effects on CNTs/vinyl ester suspensions and the resulting electrical and thermal composite properties

Composites Science and Technology

Volumn 70, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 2102-2110

  Yurdakul, Hilmi ^a   Seyhan, A Tugrul ^a   Turan, Servet ^a   Tanoĝlu, Metin ^b   Bauhofer, Wolfgang ^c   Schulte, Karl ^c  

^a ANADOLU UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b IZMIR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Turkey)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

A. Carbon nanotubes; A. Polymer matrix composites (PMCs); B. Electrical properties; C. Anisotropy; D. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM)

Indexed keywords

A. CARBON NANOTUBES; A. POLYMER-MATRIX COMPOSITES (PMCS); C. ANISOTROPY; ELECTRICAL PROPERTY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON;

ANISOTROPY; CARBON NANOTUBES; CURING; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTRONS; ESTERIFICATION; ESTERS; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; GLASS TRANSITION; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); POLYMERS; RESINS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES;

EID: 77957016420     PISSN: 02663538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compscitech.2010.08.007     Document Type: Article

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