Design, manufacturing, and characterization of high-performance lightweight bipolar plates based on carbon nanotube-exfoliated graphite nanoplatelet hybrid nanocomposites

Journal of Nanomaterials

Volumn 2012, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Kim, Myungsoo ^a   Kang, Gu Hyeok ^a   Park, Hyung Wook ^a   Park, Young Bin ^a   Park, Yeon Ho ^b   Yoon, Kwan Han ^b  

^a Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^b Kumoh National Institute of Technology   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE MATERIALS; BIPOLAR PLATES; COMPOSITE SAMPLES; DOMINANT FACTOR; ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; ELECTRICAL PERFORMANCE; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; EXFOLIATED GRAPHITE; GRAPHITE NANOPLATELETS; HYBRID NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOFILLER; NANOMATERIAL; OPTIMAL SAMPLES; OPTIMIZED CONDITIONS; PROCESSABLE; PROCESSING CONDITION; PROCESSING PARAMETERS; REACTIVE DILUENTS; WEIGHT PERCENTAGES;

CARBON NANOTUBES; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EXPERIMENTS; FACTOR ANALYSIS; MANUFACTURE; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; OPTIMIZATION;

NANOCOMPOSITES;

EID: 84870177344     PISSN: 16874110     EISSN: 16874129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2012/159737     Document Type: Article

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