Morphology and tensile properties of unreinforced and short carbon fibre reinforced Nylon 6/multiwalled carbon nanotube-composites

Polymer

Volumn 55, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 3015-3025

  Puch, Florian ^a   Hopmann, Christian ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Mechanical properties; Short fibre composites

Indexed keywords

CARBON FIBERS; CARBON NANOTUBES; ELASTIC MODULI; FILLERS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MORPHOLOGY; POLYAMIDES; RAYON; REINFORCEMENT; TENSILE STRENGTH; YARN;

CARBON-NANOTUBE COMPOSITES; MORPHOLOGY ANALYSIS; POLYMER COMPOSITE; REINFORCED NYLONS; SHORT CARBON FIBRES; SHORT FIBRE; SHORT FIBRE COMPOSITES; VOLUME CONTENT;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

EID: 84902083271     PISSN: 00323861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2014.04.052     Document Type: Article

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