Photo-actuating materials based on elastomers and modified carbon nanotubes

Journal of Nanophotonics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Czaniková, Klaudia ^a   Krupa, Igor ^a   Ilčíková, Markéta ^a   Kasák, Peter ^a   Chorvát Jr , Dušan ^b   Valentin, Marian ^a   Šlouf, Miroslav ^c   Mosnáček, Jaroslav ^a   Mičušík, Matej ^a   Omastová, Mária ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^b INTERNATIONAL LASER CENTER   (Slovakia)

^c INSTITUTE OF MACROMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

carbon nanotubes; cholesteryl 1 pyrenecarboxylate; ethylene vinylacetate copolymer elastomer; nanocomposites; photo actuation; surface treatment

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CARBON NANOTUBES; DISPERSIONS; ELASTOMERS; ETHYLENE; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOTUBES; PLASTICS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE TREATMENT;

CHOLESTERYL 1-PYRENECARBOXYLATE; CHOLESTERYL GROUPS; ELASTOMERIC MATRICES; ETHYLENE VINYLACETATE COPOLYMERS; MODIFIED CARBON; PHOTO-ACTUATION; POLYMERIC NANOCOMPOSITES; UNIAXIAL ORIENTATION;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

EID: 84880867363     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19342608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JNP.6.063522     Document Type: Article

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