A strategy for achieving low percolation and high electrical conductivity in melt-blended polycarbonate (PC)/multiwall carbon nanotube (MWCNT) nanocomposites: Electrical and thermo-mechanical properties

Express Polymer Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 505-518

  Maiti, S ^a   Shrivastava, N K ^a   Suin, S ^a   Khatua, B B ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Electrical conductivity; Nanocomposites; PC; Thermal properties

Indexed keywords

AC ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; DIELECTRIC PERMITTIVITIES; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; FIELD EMISSION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HIGH ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; HOMOGENEOUS DISPERSIONS; THERMOMECHANICAL PROPERTIES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY (TEM);

COMPRESSION MOLDING; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; FIELD EMISSION MICROSCOPES; HYBRID MATERIALS; LOADING; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); NANOCOMPOSITES; PERCOLATION (COMPUTER STORAGE); PERCOLATION (FLUIDS); PERMITTIVITY; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; POLYCARBONATES; SOLVENTS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS;

EID: 84875855073     PISSN: 1788618X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3144/expresspolymlett.2013.47     Document Type: Article

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