Control of carbon nanotubes at the interface of a co-continuous immiscible polymer blend to fabricate conductive composites with ultralow percolation thresholds

Carbon

Volumn 73, Issue , 2014, Pages 267-274

  Huang, Jinrui ^a,b   Mao, Cui ^a,b   Zhu, Yutian ^a   Jiang, Wei ^a   Yang, Xiaodong ^c  

^a CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF APPLIED CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; FILLERS; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); PERCOLATION (COMPUTER STORAGE); PERCOLATION (FLUIDS); POLYMER BLENDS; SOLVENTS;

CONDUCTIVE COMPOSITES; CONDUCTIVE FILLERS; CONDUCTIVE POLYMER COMPOSITES; IMMISCIBLE POLYMER BLENDS; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBE (MWCNTS); ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PERCOLATED NETWORK; PERCOLATION THRESHOLDS;

PHASE INTERFACES;

EID: 84897424413     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2014.02.063     Document Type: Article

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