Melt compounding with graphene to develop functional, high-performance elastomers

Nanotechnology

Volumn 24, Issue 16, 2013, Pages

  Araby, Sherif ^a,b   Zaman, Izzuddin ^a   Meng, Qingshi ^a   Kawashima, Nobuyuki ^a   Michelmore, Andrew ^a   Kuan, Hsu Chiang ^c   Majewski, Peter ^a   Ma, Jun ^a   Zhang, Liqun ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b Benha University ^*  (Egypt)

^c FAR EAST UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CROSS-LINKED POLYMERS; DEFECT CONCENTRATIONS; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ETHYLENE PROPYLENE DIENE MONOMER; INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES; OXIDATION AND REDUCTION; PERCOLATION THRESHOLDS; REINFORCING EFFECTS;

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; DYNAMIC LOADS; ELASTOMERS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ETHYLENE; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; GRAPHENE; PLASTICS; PROPYLENE; RUBBER; RUBBER COMPOUNDING; SILICATES; TENSILE STRENGTH; THERMOSETS;

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EID: 84875654634     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/24/16/165601     Document Type: Article

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