The effect of filler type and content and the manufacturing process on the performance of multifunctional carbon/poly-lactide composites

Carbon

Volumn 49, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 4280-4290

  Tait, Massimiliano ^a,b   Pegoretti, Alessandro ^b   Dorigato, Andrea ^b   Kalaitzidou, Kyriaki ^a,c  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^c Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADABLE COMPOSITES; CARBONACEOUS FILLERS; COMPOUNDING PROCESS; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; EXFOLIATED GRAPHITE; FIELD EMISSION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FILLER DISPERSION; FLEXURAL PROPERTIES; LACTIDES; LOSS MODULI; MANUFACTURING PROCESS; MATRIX; MELT MIXING; NANO-SIZED; PERCOLATION THRESHOLDS; POLYMER DISSOLUTION; PROCESSING METHOD; SURFACE CONDUCTIVITY; SYNERGISTIC ACTION; VAPOR GROWN CARBON NANOFIBERS; VICAT SOFTENING TEMPERATURE;

AGGLOMERATION; COMPOUNDING (CHEMICAL); COMPRESSION MOLDING; DISSOLUTION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EXTRUSION MOLDING; FILLED POLYMERS; FORMING; IMPACT STRENGTH; INJECTION MOLDING; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOLVENTS;

FILLERS;

EID: 79961030808     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2011.06.009     Document Type: Article

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