Epoxy composite sheets with a large interfacial area from a high surface area-supplying single-walled carbon nanotube scaffold filler

Carbon

Volumn 49, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 5090-5098

  Kobashi, Kazufumi ^a,b   Nishino, Hidekazu ^a   Yamada, Takeo ^a,b   Futaba, Don N ^a,b   Yumura, Motoo ^a,b   Hata, Kenji ^a,b,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b Technology Research Association for Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes TASC   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBES; ELASTIC MODULI; EPOXY RESINS; IMPREGNATION; NANOTUBES; SCAFFOLDS; TENSILE STRENGTH; YARN;

COMPACTION FORCES; COMPOSITE SHEETS; HIGH SURFACE AREA; INTERFACIAL AREAS; RADIUS OF GYRATION; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE (SWCNTS); VERTICALLY ALIGNED; WEIGHT FRACTIONS;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 84857033062     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2011.07.028     Document Type: Article

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