Multiwall carbon nanotube-filled natural rubber: Electrical and mechanical properties

Express Polymer Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 213-223

  Bokobza, L ^a  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Polymer composites; Reinforcements; Rubber

Indexed keywords

BULK DEFORMATION; COMPOSITE PROCESSING; CYCLIC LOADINGS; ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; ELECTRICAL MEASUREMENT; ELECTRICAL PERCOLATION THRESHOLD; ELONGATION AT BREAK; FILLER LOADING; FILLER NETWORK; HIGH ASPECT RATIO; INTERFACIAL INTERACTION; NANOTUBE DISPERSIONS; PAYNE-EFFECTS; PERCOLATION THRESHOLDS; POLYMER COMPOSITE; PROPERTY IMPROVEMENT; STRAIN AMPLITUDE; UNIAXIAL DEFORMATION; VOLUME RESISTIVITY;

ASPECT RATIO; CARBON NANOTUBES; DEFORMATION; DISPERSIONS; FILLERS; LOADING; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); NANOTUBES; PERCOLATION (COMPUTER STORAGE); PERCOLATION (FLUIDS); PERCOLATION (SOLID STATE); REINFORCEMENT;

RUBBER;

EID: 84855364308     PISSN: 1788618X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3144/expresspolymlett.2012.24     Document Type: Article

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