Dispersion of commercial multi-walled and single-walled carbon nanotubes in high density polyethylene

Journal of Nanostructured Polymers and Nanocomposites

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 128-135

  Stoeffler, Karen ^a   Perrin Sarazin, Florence ^a   Ton That, Minh Tan ^a   Bélanger, Christian ^a   Denault, Johanne ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Compatibilization; Dispersion; Polyethylene

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES DISPERSION; COMPATIBILIZATION; FUNCTIONALIZATIONS; FUNCTIONALIZED; MACROSCOPIC PROPERTIES; MATRIX; MULTI-WALLED; NANOMETRICS; SEM; TEM; THERMAL PROPERTIES;

ASPECT RATIO; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; DISPERSIONS; DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; DYNAMIC MECHANICAL ANALYSIS; MALEIC ANHYDRIDE; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); NANOCOMPOSITES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; THERMOPLASTICS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

HIGH DENSITY POLYETHYLENES;

EID: 79251550743     PISSN: 17904439     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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