Graphene-Induced Oriented Interfacial Microstructures in Single Fiber Polymer Composites

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 24, 2015, Pages 13620-13626

  Abdou, John P ^a   Braggin, Gregory A ^a   Luo, Yanqi ^a   Stevenson, Alexandra R ^a   Chun, Danielle ^a   Zhang, Shanju ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

adhesion; crystallization kinetics; fibers; graphene; interfacial interactions; polymer composites

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; COPOLYMERS; CRYSTALLIZATION KINETICS; FIBERS; FREE ENERGY; MICROSTRUCTURE; NANOCOMPOSITES; NUCLEATION; POLYMERS; POLYPROPYLENES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CRYSTALLIZATION TEMPERATURE; HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEATION; INTERFACIAL INTERACTION; INTERFACIAL MICROSTRUCTURE; ISOTACTIC POLY(PROPYLENE) (IPP); LAURITZEN-HOFFMAN THEORY; POLARIZED OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; POLYMER COMPOSITE;

GRAPHENE;

ADHESION; COMPOSITES; FIBERS; POLYMERS;

EID: 84932638022     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b03269     Document Type: Article

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