Green tea-aided dispersion of single-walled carbon nanotubes in non-water media: Application for extraordinary reinforcement of nanocomposite fibers

Textile Research Journal

Volumn 82, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 911-919

  Uddin, Ahmed Jalal ^a   Watanabe, Akihira ^a   Gotoh, Yasuo ^a   Saito, Takeshi ^b   Yumura, Motoo ^b  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

carbon nanotubes; green tea; Polymer matrix composites; tensile strength; toughness

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; DISPERSIONS; NANOTUBES; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES; SPINNING (FIBERS); TEA; TENSILE STRENGTH; TOUGHNESS;

CRYSTALLINE INTERFACES; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE (DMSO); DYNAMIC MECHANICAL PROPERTY; GREEN TEA; GREEN TEA EXTRACTS; NANOCOMPOSITE FIBERS; REINFORCING EFFECTS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE (SWCNTS);

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 84859244454     PISSN: 00405175     EISSN: 17467748     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0040517512438131     Document Type: Article

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