Elastomeric photo-actuators and their investigation by confocal laser scanning microscopy

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Czaniková, Klaudia ^a   Ilčíková, Markéta ^a   Krupa, Igor ^b   Mičušík, Matej ^a   Kasák, Peter ^a   Pavlova, Ewa ^c   Mosnáček, Jaroslav ^a   Chorvát Jr, Dušan ^d   Omastová, Mária ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^b Qatar University ^*  (Qatar)

^c INSTITUTE OF MACROMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY   (Czech Republic)

^d INTERNATIONAL LASER CENTER   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFOCAL LASER SCANNING MICROSCOPY; ETHYLENE-VINYL ACETATE COPOLYMERS; MODIFIED MULTI-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES; POLYMERIC MATRICES; POLYSTYRENE CHAINS; STYRENE-ISOPRENE-STYRENE; UNIAXIAL ORIENTATION; WELL-DISPERSED;

CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; COPOLYMERS; DISPERSIONS; ETHYLENE; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); NANOCOMPOSITES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STYRENE; SWITCHING CIRCUITS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

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EID: 84880876716     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/22/10/104001     Document Type: Article

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