Latex and two-roll mill processing of thermally-exfoliated graphite oxide/natural rubber nanocomposites

Composites Science and Technology

Volumn 74, Issue , 2013, Pages 166-172

  Potts, Jeffrey R ^a   Shankar, Om ^a   Murali, Shanthi ^a   Du, Ling ^b   Ruoff, Rodney S ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b GOODYEAR TIRE AND RUBBER COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

A. Nano composites; A. Polymer matrix composites (PMCs); C. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM)

Indexed keywords

CO-COAGULATION; GRAPHITE OXIDE; MELT PROCESSING; NR LATEX; POLYMERMATRIX COMPOSITES (PMCS); PROPERTY CHANGES; RUBBER NANOCOMPOSITES; TACTOIDS; THERMOPLASTIC POLYMER; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY TEM; TWO-ROLL MILL;

CARBON BLACK; COAGULATION; DISPERSIONS; GRAPHENE; NANOCOMPOSITES; RUBBER; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

LATEXES;

EID: 84871561614     PISSN: 02663538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compscitech.2012.11.008     Document Type: Article

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