A facile route to isotropic conductive nanocomposites by direct polymer infiltration of carbon nanotube sponges

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 4276-4283

  Gui, Xuchun ^a,b   Li, Hongbian ^c   Zhang, Luhui ^c   Jia, Yi ^b   Liu, Li ^b   Li, Zhen ^b   Wei, Jinquan ^b   Wang, Kunlin ^b   Zhu, Hongwei ^b   Tang, Zikang ^a   Wu, Dehai ^b   Cao, Anyuan ^c  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

carbon nanotubes; electromechanical device; isotropic property; nanocomposites; sponges

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY DIRECTION; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; ELECTRO-MECHANICAL SENSORS; EPOXY MATRICES; ISOTROPIC PROPERTY; ISOTROPIC STRUCTURE; MATRIX; MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES; NANO-SCALE FILLERS; NETWORK STRUCTURES; POLYMER INFILTRATION; POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; REVERSIBLE RESISTANCE CHANGES; SPONGES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL NANOTUBES; TUNNELING CONDUCTION;

CARBON NANOTUBES; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; NANOCOMPOSITES; SCAFFOLDS; SEEPAGE; SOIL MECHANICS;

POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES;

CARBON NANOTUBE; NANOCOMPOSITE; PLASTIC; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TENSILE STRENGTH;

ELECTROCHEMISTRY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PLASTICS; POLYMERS; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 79959805155     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn201002d     Document Type: Article

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