Polymeric films with electric and magnetic anisotropy due to magnetically assembled functional nanofibers

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 4535-4541

  Fragouli, Despina ^a   Das, Arindam ^b   Innocenti, Claudia ^c   Guttikonda, Yogita ^d   Rahman, Syed ^d   Liu, Lei ^d   Caramia, Vincenzo ^a   Megaridis, Constantine M ^b   Athanassiou, Athanassia ^a  

^a ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b University of Illinois at Chicago   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^d University of Notre Dame   (United States)

Author keywords

anisotropy; carbon nanofibers; magnetophoretic transport; polymer nanocomposites; THz polarizers

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CARBON NANOFIBERS; CONDUCTIVE FILMS; NANOCOMPOSITES; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; POLYMER FILMS;

COST-EFFECTIVE FABRICATION; ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE; EXTERNAL MAGNETIC FIELD; FUNCTIONAL NANOFIBERS; MAGNETOPHORETIC TRANSPORT; POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITE; POLYMERIC NANOCOMPOSITES; THZ POLARIZERS;

ELECTRIC PROPERTIES;

EID: 84896909602     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am500335u     Document Type: Article

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