Electrical and dielectric behaviors of dry-mixed CNT/UHMWPE nanocomposites

High Performance Polymers

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 205-211

  Al Saleh, Mohammed H ^a   Jawad, Saadi Abdul ^b   El Ghanem, Hasan M ^a  

^a JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

^b HASHEMITE UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

CNT; DC conductivity; Electrical percolation threshold; impedance analysis; polymer nanocomposite; UHMWPE

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894464293     PISSN: 09540083     EISSN: 13616412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0954008313507590     Document Type: Article

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