Inorganic nanotubes reinforced polyvinylidene fluoride composites as low-cost electromagnetic interference shielding materials

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Eswaraiah, Varrla ^a   Sankaranarayanan, Venkataraman ^a   Ramaprabhu, Sundara ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSTS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYZERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; ELECTROMAGNETIC SHIELDING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE INTERFERENCE; FIELD EMISSION MICROSCOPES; FLUORINE COMPOUNDS; MANGANESE OXIDE; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOTUBES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SHIELDING; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE; ELECTROMAGNETISM; FUNCTIONAL POLYMERS; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); REINFORCED PLASTICS;

ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY MEASUREMENTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE SHIELDING EFFECTIVENESS; ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE SHIELDING MATERIALS; FIELD EMISSION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FUNCTIONALIZED MULTI-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES; HOMOGENEOUS DISTRIBUTION; POLYVINYLIDENE FLUORIDES; VECTOR NETWORK ANALYZERS; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; EMI SHIELDING; FOUR-PROBE TECHNIQUES; INORGANIC NANOTUBES; MATRIX; NOVEL POLYMERS; POLYMER COMPOSITE; SAMPLE HOLDERS; X-BAND FREQUENCY RANGE;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); ELECTROMAGNETIC SHIELDING;

EID: 84255173313     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-6-137     Document Type: Article

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