Influence of dry grinding in a ball mill on the length of multiwalled carbon nanotubes and their dispersion and percolation behaviour in melt mixed polycarbonate composites

Composites Science and Technology

Volumn 71, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1145-1153

  Krause, Beate ^a   Villmow, Tobias ^a   Boldt, Regine ^a   Mende, Mandy ^a   Petzold, Gudrun ^a   Pötschke, Petra ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF POLYMER RESEARCH DRESDEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

A. Carbon nanotubes; A. Polymer matrix composites (PMCs); B. Electrical properties; D. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM); Dispersion

Indexed keywords

A. CARBON NANOTUBES; A. POLYMER-MATRIX COMPOSITES (PMCS); AGGLOMERATE SIZES; AQUEOUS SURFACTANT SOLUTIONS; BALL MILLING TIME; BALL-MILLED; D. TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY (TEM); DISPERSABILITY; DRY GRINDING; DRY STATE; ELECTRICAL PERCOLATION THRESHOLD; ELECTRICAL PROPERTY; LENGTH DISTRIBUTIONS; MACRODISPERSION; MASTERBATCH; MELT-COMPOUNDING; MELT-MIXED COMPOSITES; NANOCYL; NANOTUBE LENGTHS; PACKING DENSITY; TEM ANALYSIS;

BALL MILLING; BALL MILLS; DISPERSIONS; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; MILLING (MACHINING); MILLING MACHINES; POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES; SOLVENTS; SPHERES; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

EID: 79956086440     PISSN: 02663538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compscitech.2011.04.004     Document Type: Article

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