A method for determination of length distributions of multiwalled carbon nanotubes before and after melt processing

Carbon

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1243-1247

  Krause, Beate ^a   Boldt, Regine ^a   Pötschke, Petra ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF POLYMER RESEARCH DRESDEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEFORE AND AFTER; LENGTH DISTRIBUTIONS; MATRIX; MELT PROCESSING; MELT-MIXED COMPOSITES; NANOCYL; NANOTUBE CONCENTRATION; SIMPLE METHOD;

TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

EID: 78751579021     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2010.11.042     Document Type: Article

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