Mechanical Property and Structure of Covalent Functionalised Graphene/Epoxy Nanocomposites

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Naebe, Minoo ^a   Wang, Jing ^a   Amini, Abbas ^b   Khayyam, Hamid ^a   Hameed, Nishar ^a   Li, Lu Hua ^a   Chen, Ying ^a   Fox, Bronwyn ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

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EID: 84926311760     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep04375     Document Type: Article

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