Electrical conductivity and thermal stability of polypropylene containing well-dispersed multi-walled carbon nanotubes disentangled with exfoliated nanoplatelets

Carbon

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 4711-4721

  Chu, Chien Chia ^a   White, Kevin L ^a   Liu, Peng ^a   Zhang, Xi ^a   Sue, Hung Jue ^a  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL PRODUCTIONS; CRYSTALLIZATION BEHAVIOR; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGING; FUNCTIONALIZED; INTERFACIAL AREAS; NANO-PLATELETS; NUCLEATING AGENTS; OCTADECYLAMINES; PERCOLATION THRESHOLDS; POLYMER CHAINS; POLYMER MATRICES; PP MATRIX; RANDOM DISPERSIONS; SEMICRYSTALLINES; SURFACE FUNCTIONALITIES; WELL-DISPERSED; ZIRCONIUM PHOSPHATE;

COAGULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; SOLVENTS; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; THERMOPLASTICS; ZIRCONIUM COMPOUNDS;

POLYPROPYLENES;

EID: 84863720619     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2012.05.063     Document Type: Article

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