Improvement of toughness and electrical properties of epoxy composites with carbon nanotubes prepared by industrially relevant processes

Nanotechnology

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Hollertz, R ^a   Chatterjee, S ^a   Gutmann, H ^b   Geiger, T ^a   Nuesch F A ^a   Chu, B T T ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b Rohner AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY MEASUREMENTS; ELECTRICAL PROPERTY; EPOXY COMPOSITE; HIGH PRESSURE HOMOGENIZER; INDUSTRIAL SCALE; INTERCONNECTED NETWORK; MASTER BATCH; MICROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; MOULD CASTING; NANO-CARBON; NANOFILLER; PERCOLATION THRESHOLDS; POLYMERIC MATRICES; PROCESSING METHOD; REINFORCED EPOXY; REPRODUCIBILITIES; UNIFORM DISPERSIONS; WELL-DISPERSED;

CARBON NANOTUBES; DISPERSIONS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; SOLVENTS;

FRACTURE TOUGHNESS;

EID: 79951815809     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/22/12/125702     Document Type: Article

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