Facile Synthesis and Properties of Multilayered Polyaniline/Polypyrrole/Epoxy/Polystyrene/Functionalized Carbon Nanotube Composites

Polymer - Plastics Technology and Engineering

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 661-670

  Nawaz, Saima ^a   Siddiq, Muhammad ^a   Kausar, Ayesha ^a   Hussain, Syed Tajammul ^a   Abbas, Faisal ^a  

^a QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Layer by layer oxidative polymerization; Multilayered nanocomposites; Thermal stability; Transmission electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; GLASS TRANSITION; NANOCOMPOSITES; POLYMERIZATION; POLYPYRROLES; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CARBON-NANOTUBE COMPOSITES; FACILE SYNTHESIS; FUNCTIONALIZED CARBON NANOTUBES; LAYERED MATERIAL; MULTI-LAYERED; OXIDATIVE POLYMERIZATION; POLYANILINES (PANI); POLYPYRROLE (PPY);

POLYANILINE;

EID: 84899860617     PISSN: 03602559     EISSN: 15256111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03602559.2013.874032     Document Type: Article

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