Pros and cons of melt annealing on the properties of MWCNT/polypropylene composites

Polymer Degradation and Stability

Volumn 110, Issue , 2014, Pages 56-64

  Gentile, Gennaro ^a   Ambrogi, Veronica ^b   Cerruti, Pierfrancesco ^a   Di Maio, Rosa ^b   Nasti, Giuseppe ^a,b   Carfagna, Cosimo ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Electrical properties; Heat treatment; Multiwalled carbon nanotubes; Polypropylene; Rheological properties; Thermal oxidation

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBES; DISPERSIONS; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; HEAT TREATMENT; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOTUBES; OXIDATION; POLYPROPYLENES; SURFACE TREATMENT; THERMAL BLOOMING; THERMOOXIDATION; YARN; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

CRACK INITIATION SITES; DISPERSION STABILITY; DYNAMIC RECONSTRUCTION; FTIR-ATR SPECTROSCOPY; HETEROGENEOUS OXIDATION; POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITE; RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTY; THERMAL OXIDATION; MELT ANNEALING;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); ELECTRIC PROPERTIES;

EID: 84907419439     PISSN: 01413910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymdegradstab.2014.08.018     Document Type: Article

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