Carbon nanotube growth on high modulus carbon fibres: Morphological and interfacial characterization

Surface and Interface Analysis

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1372-1381

  Boura, O ^a   Diamanti, E K ^a   Grammatikos, S A ^a   Gournis, D ^a   Paipetis, A S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Acoustic emission; Carbon fibre; Carbon nanotubes; Chemical vapour deposition; Fragmentation; Polarized light microscopy; Raman Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

CATALYTIC CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION; CATALYTIC DECOMPOSITION; CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION; FRAGMENTATION; INTERFACIAL CHARACTERIZATION; INTERFACIAL SHEAR STRENGTH; POLARIZED OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; WET IMPREGNATION METHOD;

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; CARBON FIBERS; CATALYSTS; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; DIFFERENTIAL THERMAL ANALYSIS; FIBERS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; VAPORS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 84881374691     PISSN: 01422421     EISSN: 10969918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sia.5292     Document Type: Article

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