Highly aligned polyacrylonitrile-based nano-scale carbon fibres with homogeneous structure and desirable properties

Composites Science and Technology

Volumn 87, Issue , 2013, Pages 77-85

  Sui, Gang ^a   Sun, Fengjie ^a   Yang, Xiaoping ^a   Ji, Jianying ^b   Zhong, Weihong ^b  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Washington State University   (United States)

Author keywords

A. Carbon fibres; A. Nano composites; B. Electrical properties; B. Mechanical properties; Microstructure

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; HOMOGENEOUS STRUCTURE; MEAN ROUGHNESS; REINFORCING EFFECTS; SMOOTH SURFACE; TEMPERATURE RANGE; UNIFORM STRUCTURE; YOUNG'S MODULUS;

CARBON FIBERS; CARBONIZATION; COMPOSITE MEMBRANES; ELASTIC MODULI; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTROSPINNING; MICROSTRUCTURE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; REINFORCEMENT; TENSILE STRENGTH; TENSILE TESTING;

FIBERS;

EID: 84883332251     PISSN: 02663538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compscitech.2013.08.001     Document Type: Article

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