Open structured in comparison with dense multi-walled carbon nanotube buckypapers and their composites

Composites Science and Technology

Volumn 77, Issue , 2013, Pages 52-59

  Trakakis, George ^a   Tasis, Dimitrios ^a,b   Aggelopoulos, Christos ^a   Parthenios, John ^a   Galiotis, Costas ^a,b   Papagelis, Konstantinos ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCES   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

A. Carbon nanotubes; A. Functional composites; B. Mechanical properties; B. Porosity voids

Indexed keywords

BUCKYPAPER; FABRICATION PROCEDURE; FUNCTIONAL COMPOSITES; INDUSTRIAL SCALE; MECHANICAL PERFORMANCE; POROSITY/VOIDS; REACTIVE FUNCTIONAL GROUPS;

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES;

FUNCTIONAL GROUPS;

EID: 84873530374     PISSN: 02663538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compscitech.2013.01.003     Document Type: Article

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