Massive electrical conductivity enhancement of multilayer graphene/polystyrene composites using a nonconductive filler

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 19, 2014, Pages 16472-16475

  Chakraborty, Indrani ^a   Bodurtha, Kevin J ^a   Heeder, Nicholas J ^a   Godfrin, Michael P ^b   Tripathi, Anubhav ^b   Hurt, Robert H ^c   Shukla, Arun ^a   Bose, Arijit ^a  

^a The University of Rhode Island   (United States)

^b Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering   (United States)

^c Brown University   (United States)

Author keywords

composites; dispersion; electrical conductivity; multilayer graphene; polymer

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; DISPERSION (WAVES); DISPERSIONS; FILLERS; GRAPHENE; MULTILAYERS; POLYMERS;

EFFECTIVE DISPERSION; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; MULTILAYER GRAPHENE; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; RESTACKING; SILICA NANOPARTICLES; SOLVENT CASTING;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 84907903567     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am5044592     Document Type: Article

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