Electro-responsive polystyrene shape memory polymer nanocomposites

Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 814-820

  Xu, B ^a,b   Zhang, L ^b   Pei, Y T ^d   Luo, J K ^e   Tao, S W ^f   De Hosson, J Th M ^d   Fu, Y Q ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BOLTON   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electro Responsive; Micromechanical; Nanocomposites; Shape Memory Polymer

Indexed keywords

APPLIED VOLTAGES; DYNAMIC MECHANICAL THERMAL ANALYSIS; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRO-RESPONSIVE; MICRO-CANTILEVERS; MICRO-MECHANICAL; MICRO-SCALES; NANOINDENTATION EXPERIMENTS; RECOVERY RATE; SHAPE MEMORY; SHAPE MEMORY POLYMERS; SHAPE RECOVERY; TESTING FREQUENCIES; THERMO-MECHANICAL;

DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; POLYSTYRENES; SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT; SHAPE OPTIMIZATION; THERMOANALYSIS;

NANOCOMPOSITES;

EID: 84865796533     PISSN: 19414900     EISSN: 19414919     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1166/nnl.2012.1393     Document Type: Article

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