Implication of multi-walled carbon nanotubes on polymer/graphene composites

Materials and Design

Volumn 65, Issue , 2015, Pages 690-699

  Araby, Sherif ^a,d   Saber, Nasser ^a   Ma, Xing ^a   Kawashima, Nobuyuki ^a   Kang, Hailan ^b   Shen, Heng ^c   Zhang, Liqun ^b   Xu, Jian ^c   Majewski, Peter ^a   Ma, Jun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (China)

^d Benha University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Conductivity; Elastomers; Graphene; Reinforcement

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE INDUSTRY; CARBON NANOTUBES; ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTOMERS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FILLERS; GRAPHENE; PLASTICS; PLATELETS; POLYMERS; REINFORCEMENT; RUBBER COMPOUNDING; SOLVENTS; TENSILE STRENGTH; YARN;

CONDUCTIVE NETWORKS; ELASTOMERIC COMPOSITE; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; GRAPHENE PLATELETS; PERCOLATION THRESHOLDS; POLYMER COMPOSITE; STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES; SYNERGISTIC EFFECT;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

EID: 84918816137     PISSN: 02613069     EISSN: 18734197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2014.09.069     Document Type: Article

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