Elastic percolation of swollen polyacrylamide (PAAm)-multiwall carbon nanotubes composite

Phase Transitions

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 553-564

  Evingr, Gülşen Akn ^a   Pekcan, Önder ^b  

^a PIRI REIS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b KADIR HAS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

acrylamide; hydrogel; mechanical properties; multiwalled carbon nanotubes

Indexed keywords

ACRYLAMIDES; COMPRESSIVE ELASTIC MODULUS; CRITICAL EXPONENT; PERCOLATION NETWORKS; POLYACRYLAMIDES; SUDDEN CHANGE; SUPERELASTIC; TESTING TECHNIQUE;

AMIDES; ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTICITY; FREE RADICALS; HYDROGELS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); TENSILE TESTING; TESTING;

SOLVENTS;

EID: 84862225296     PISSN: 01411594     EISSN: 10290338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01411594.2011.634333     Document Type: Article

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