Thermal conductivity of MWCNT/epoxy composites: The effects of length, alignment and functionalization

Carbon

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2083-2090

  Park, Jin Gyu ^a   Cheng, Qunfeng ^a,c   Lu, Jun ^b   Bao, Jianwen ^a   Li, Shu ^a   Tian, Ying ^a   Liang, Zhiyong ^a   Zhang, Chuck ^a   Wang, Ben ^a,d  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES (CNTS); DEGREE OF ALIGNMENTS; FUNCTIONALIZATION OF CNTS; FUNCTIONALIZATIONS; INTERFACIAL BONDING; ROOM TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THIN SHEET; UMKLAPP SCATTERING;

ALIGNMENT;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 84862808819     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2011.12.046     Document Type: Article

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