Electrical conductivity and mechanical properties of multiwalled carbon nanotube-reinforced polypropylene nanocomposites

Acta Mechanica

Volumn 220, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 289-298

  Ngabonziza, Y ^a   Li, J ^b   Barry, C F ^c  

^a University of New York   (United States)

^b City University of New York   (United States)

^c University of Massachusetts   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; HIGH CONDUCTIVITY; INJECTION MOLDS; INJECTION SPEED; INJECTION VELOCITY; LOW CONDUCTIVITY; MICROMECHANICAL MODEL; MULTI-WALLED; NANOCOMPOSITE SYSTEMS; PERCOLATION THEORY; PERCOLATION THRESHOLDS; POLYPROPYLENE NANOCOMPOSITES; STRESS STRAIN RELATION; TENSILE LOADING;

ELASTIC MODULI; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS; MOLDS; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); NANOCOMPOSITES; PERCOLATION (COMPUTER STORAGE); PERCOLATION (FLUIDS); PERCOLATION (SOLID STATE); REINFORCED PLASTICS; SOLVENTS; STRAIN; STRESS-STRAIN CURVES; STRESSES; THERMOPLASTICS;

ELECTRIC PROPERTIES;

EID: 79960204117     PISSN: 00015970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00707-011-0486-y     Document Type: Article

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