Graphene reinforced alumina nano-composites

Carbon

Volumn 64, Issue , 2013, Pages 359-369

  Porwal, Harshit ^a,b   Tatarko, Peter ^c   Grasso, Salvatore ^a,b   Khaliq, Jibran ^a   Dlouhý, Ivo ^c   Reece, Mike J ^a,b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Nanoforce Technology Limited   (United Kingdom)

^c CEITEC IPM Institute of Physics of Materials ASCR   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA MATRIX; GRAPHENE COMPOSITES; LIQUID PHASE; PERCOLATING NETWORKS; POWDER PROCESSING ROUTE; ULTRA-SONICATION;

ALUMINA; CRACK PROPAGATION; CRACKS; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84883598841     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2013.07.086     Document Type: Article

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