Superior Mechanical Properties of Epoxy Composites Reinforced by 3D Interconnected Graphene Skeleton

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 21, 2015, Pages 11583-11591

  Ni, Ya ^a   Chen, Lei ^a   Teng, Kunyue ^a   Shi, Jie ^a   Qian, Xiaoming ^a   Xu, Zhiwei ^a   Tian, Xu ^a   Hu, Chuansheng ^a   Ma, Meijun ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

epoxy based composites; mechanical properties; ordered arrangement; resin transfer molding; three dimensional graphene skeleton

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; DISPERSIONS; GLASS TRANSITION; GRAPHENE; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MIXING; MOLDING; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; NANOCOMPOSITES; REINFORCEMENT; RESIN TRANSFER MOLDING; RESINS; SELF ASSEMBLY; TENSILE STRENGTH;

DIRECT MIXING METHOD; EPOXY COMPOSITE; EPOXY-BASED; GRAPHENE NANOSHEETS; ORDERED ARRANGEMENT; POLYAMIDOAMINE DENDRIMERS; POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL GRAPHENE;

EPOXY RESINS;

EID: 84930683277     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b02552     Document Type: Article

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