Electrical and mechanical characteristics of buckypapers and evaporative cast films prepared using single and multi-walled carbon nanotubes and the biopolymer carrageenan

Carbon

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1197-1208

  Aldalbahi, Ali ^a,b   In Het Panhuis, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUCKY PAPER; CARRAGEENANS; CAST FILM; ELECTRICAL CHARACTERISTIC; MECHANICAL CHARACTERISTICS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON; VACUUM FILTRATION;

BIOMOLECULES; CARBON; CARBON FILMS; CASTING; CONDUCTIVE FILMS; CONTACT ANGLE; FILM PREPARATION; INVESTMENT CASTING; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS; VACUUM APPLICATIONS;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 84155164464     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2011.10.034     Document Type: Article

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