Producing superior composites by winding carbon nanotubes onto a mandrel under a poly(vinyl alcohol) spray

Carbon

Volumn 49, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 4786-4791

  Liu, Wei ^a,b   Zhang, Xiaohua ^c   Xu, Geng ^c   Bradford, Philip D ^b   Wang, Xin ^b   Zhao, Haibo ^b   Zhang, Yingying ^d   Jia, Quanxi ^d   Yuan, Fuh Gwo ^b   Li, Qingwen ^c   Qiu, Yiping ^a   Zhu, Yuntian ^b  

^a DONGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SUZHOU INSTITUTE OF NANO TECH AND NANO BIONICS   (China)

^d LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGREE OF ALIGNMENTS; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; MATRIX; ONE STEP SYNTHESIS; ROTATING MANDREL; SIMPLE METHOD; VINYLALCOHOL;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; WINDING;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 80051801521     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2011.06.089     Document Type: Article

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