Connectivity percolation of polydisperse anisotropic nanofillers

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 134, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Otten, Ronald H J ^a,b   Van Der Schoot, Paul ^a,c  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b DUTCH POLYMER INSTITUTE DPI   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC PARTICLES; AVERAGE LENGTH; CARBON-NANOTUBE COMPOSITES; DISK-LIKE PARTICLE; ELECTRICAL PERCOLATION THRESHOLD; EXPERIMENTAL VALUES; GRAPHENE SHEETS; INFINITE NUMBERS; INSULATING PARTICLES; LARGE CLASS; LENGTH DISTRIBUTIONS; MEAN CLUSTER SIZE; MONODISPERSE; NANO-FILLERS; NON-ADDITIVE; PERCOLATION THEORY; PERCOLATION THRESHOLDS; POLYDISPERSES; ROD-LIKE PARTICLES; SKEWED DISTRIBUTION;

ANISOTROPY; CARBON NANOTUBES; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; GRAPHENE; PERCOLATION (COMPUTER STORAGE); PERCOLATION (FLUIDS); PERCOLATION (SOLID STATE); POLYDISPERSITY; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

SOLVENTS;

CARBON NANOTUBE; NANOCOMPOSITE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; PARTICLE SIZE;

NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PARTICLE SIZE;

EID: 79952515575     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3559004     Document Type: Article

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