Reinforcement in melt-processed polymer-graphene composites at extremely low graphene loading level

Carbon

Volumn 78, Issue , 2014, Pages 243-249

  Istrate, Oana M ^a   Paton, Keith R ^a,b   Khan, Umar ^a   O'Neill, Arlene ^a   Bell, Alan P ^a   Coleman, Jonathan N ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b THOMAS SWAN AND CO LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLENDING; GRAPHENE; NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS; NANOCOMPOSITES; REINFORCEMENT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STIFFNESS; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; TENSILE STRENGTH; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ELONGATION AT BREAK; FRACTURE INITIATION; INDUSTRIAL MANUFACTURING; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF POLYMERS; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES (PET); POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITE; RESULTING MATERIALS; STRENGTH AND DUCTILITIES;

LOADING;

EID: 84906317106     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2014.06.077     Document Type: Article

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