Functionalization of multiwalled carbon nanotubes with thermotropic liquid-crystalline polymer and thermal properties of composites

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 891-897

  Wu, Xiaoli ^a   Chen, Xianhong ^a   Wang, Jianfeng ^a   Liu, Jilin ^a   Fan, Zefu ^a   Chen, Xiaohua ^a   Chen, Jianghua ^a  

^a HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE FRACTURE SURFACES; FTIR SPECTROSCOPY; FUNCTIONALIZATIONS; FUNCTIONALIZED; HOMOGENEOUS DISPERSIONS; IN-SITU; LIQUID CRYSTALLINE POLYMER; MATRIX; MESOPHASES; RAMAN SIGNAL; SEM; SEM IMAGE; TEM; TEMPERATURE REGIONS; THERMAL PROPERTIES;

CARBON NANOTUBES; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; CRYSTALS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; FUNCTIONAL POLYMERS; GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); LIQUIDS; NANOCOMPOSITES; POLYCONDENSATION; POLYMERS; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

EID: 78651390145     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie1018029     Document Type: Conference Paper

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