A novel approach to predict the electrical conductivity of multifunctional nanocomposites

Mechanics of Materials

Volumn 46, Issue , 2012, Pages 129-138

  Bao, W S ^a,b   Meguid, S A ^a   Zhu, Z H ^b   Pan, Y ^c   Weng, G J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube; Contact resistance; Electrical conductivity; Monte Carlo; Nanocomposites; Percolation model

Indexed keywords

ALIGNED CNTS; CLUSTER DIAMETER; CURRENT CONTINUITY; DEVELOPED MODEL; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; FINITE SIZE; INTRINSIC RESISTANCE; MONTE CARLO; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; MULTIFUNCTIONAL NANOCOMPOSITES; PERCOLATION MODEL; PERCOLATION THRESHOLDS; PREDICTIVE TOOLS; REPRESENTATIVE VOLUME ELEMENTS;

AGGLOMERATION; CARBON NANOTUBES; CONTACT RESISTANCE; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NANOCOMPOSITES; PERCOLATION (SOLID STATE); SOLVENTS;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS;

EID: 84856588955     PISSN: 01676636     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mechmat.2011.12.006     Document Type: Article

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