Percolation behaviour of multiwalled carbon nanotubes of altered length and primary agglomerate morphology in melt mixed isotactic polypropylene-based composites

Composites Science and Technology

Volumn 71, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 1936-1943

  Menzer, Katharina ^a   Krause, Beate ^b   Boldt, Regine ^b   Kretzschmar, Bernd ^b   Weidisch, Roland ^a,c   Pötschke, Petra ^b  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MECHANICS OF MATERIALS IWM   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF POLYMER RESEARCH DRESDEN   (Germany)

^c MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

A. Carbon nanotubes; A. Nanocomposites; B. Electrical properties; D. Rheology; D. Scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM)

Indexed keywords

A. CARBON NANOTUBES; A. NANOCOMPOSITES; D. RHEOLOGY; D. SCANNING/TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY (STEM); ELECTRICAL PROPERTY;

AGGLOMERATION; BALL MILLING; DISPERSIONS; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; MALEIC ANHYDRIDE; MILLING (MACHINING); MILLING MACHINES; MORPHOLOGY; NANOCOMPOSITES; POLYMER BLENDS; POLYPROPYLENES; RHEOLOGY; SOLVENTS; SPHERES; THERMOPLASTICS;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

EID: 80055001146     PISSN: 02663538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compscitech.2011.09.009     Document Type: Article

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