Heat transfer in microcellular polystyrene/multi-walled carbon nanotube nanocomposite foams

Carbon

Volumn 93, Issue , 2015, Pages 819-829

  Gong, Pengjian ^a   Buahom, Piyapong ^a   Tran, Minh Phuong ^a   Saniei, Mehdi ^a   Park, Chul B ^a   Pötschke, Petra ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF POLYMER RESEARCH DRESDEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; FOAMS; MICROCELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); NANOCOMPOSITES; POLYSTYRENES; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS; THERMAL INSULATION; WAVEMETERS; YARN;

CARBON NANOTUBE NANOCOMPOSITES; HEAT TRANSFER CHARACTERISTICS; HIGH THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; INSULATION PERFORMANCE; LARGE EXPANSION RATIO; NANOCOMPOSITE FOAMS; RADIATION BEHAVIOR; TOTAL THERMAL CONDUCTIVITIES;

HEAT TRANSFER;

EID: 84938597391     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2015.06.003     Document Type: Article

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