Current advances in the carbon nanotube/thermotropic main-chain liquid crystalline polymer nanocomposites and their blends

Polymers

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 889-912

  Cheng, Henry Kuo Feng ^a,b   Basu, Tanya ^a   Sahoo, Nanda Gopal ^c   Li, Lin ^a   Chan, Siew Hwa ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE INSTITUTE OF MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Blend; Carbon nanotube; Liquid crystalline polymer; Nanocomposite

Indexed keywords

BARRIER PROPERTIES; BLEND; CARBON-BASED; CHEMICAL INERTNESS; CHEMICALLY MODIFIED; CRYSTALLINE POLYMERS; GRAPHENE OXIDES; HIGH MECHANICAL STRENGTH; HIGH STRENGTH; HIGH THERMAL STABILITY; INTERFACIAL ADHESIONS; LOAD TRANSFER; NANO-FILLERS; PARTICULATE COMPOSITES; THERMOTROPIC LIQUID CRYSTALLINE POLYMER;

BLENDING; CARBON NANOTUBES; CHEMICAL RESISTANCE; DISPERSIONS; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; FILLERS; GRAPHENE; LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS; NANOCOMPOSITES;

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 84862542675     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/polym4020889     Document Type: Review

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