Enhanced actuation in functionalized carbon nanotube-Nafion composites

Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical

Volumn 156, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 187-193

  Lian, Huiqin ^a,d   Qian, Weizhong ^b   Estevez, Luis ^c   Liu, Hailan ^d   Liu, Yuexian ^d   Jiang, Tao ^d   Wang, Kuisheng ^a   Guo, Wenli ^e   Giannelis, Emmanuel P ^c  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Cornell University   (United States)

^d YANBIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e BEIJING INSTITUTE OF PETROCHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Actuation; Carbon nanotubes; Composites; IPMC; Nafion

Indexed keywords

ACTUATION; BLOCKING FORCES; COMPOSITES; DYNAMIC MECHANICAL PROPERTY; ELECTROMECHANICAL PERFORMANCE; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; FUNCTIONALIZED; FUNCTIONALIZED CARBON NANOTUBES (F-CNT); ION EXCHANGE CAPACITY; IPMC; MATRIX; NAFION; NAFION COMPOSITE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY IMAGE; STORAGE MODULI; WATER UPTAKE;

ACTUATORS; CARBON NANOTUBES; COMPOSITE MEMBRANES; DEIONIZED WATER; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GLYCOLS; ION EXCHANGE; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; POLYETHYLENE OXIDES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 79957800926     PISSN: 09254005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2011.04.012     Document Type: Article

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