Oxidation behavior of graphene nanoplatelet reinforced tantalum carbide composites in high temperature plasma flow

Carbon

Volumn 67, Issue , 2014, Pages 398-408

  Nieto, Andy ^a   Kumar, Amit ^b   Lahiri, Debrupa ^a   Zhang, Cheng ^a   Seal, Sudipta ^b   Agarwal, Arvind ^a  

^a The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBIDES; CARBON; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GRAPHENE; OXIDATION; PLASMA DEVICES; PLASMA FLOW; PLASMA JETS; REINFORCEMENT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TANTALUM; TANTALUM CARBIDE; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMAL GRADIENTS;

CARBIDE COMPOSITES; COMPUTED X-RAY TOMOGRAPHIES; GRAPHENE NANOPLATELETS; HIGH THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; HIGH-TEMPERATURE PLASMAS; HYPERSONIC FLIGHTS; OXIDATION BEHAVIORS; STRUCTURAL DAMAGES;

HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84892834375     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2013.10.010     Document Type: Article

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