Thermal and mechanical behavior of hybrid polymer nanocomposite reinforced with graphene nanoplatelets

Materials

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 5526-5536

  Le, Minh Tai ^a,b   Huang, Shyh Chour ^b  

^a HO CHI MINH CITY UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND EDUCATION   (Viet Nam)

^b NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Epoxy; Graphene nanoplatelets; Morphology; Nanocomposite; Tensile strength; Thermal conductivity; Unsaturated polyester

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC MECHANICAL ANALYSIS; GLASS TRANSITION; GRAPHENE; MIXTURES; MORPHOLOGY; REINFORCEMENT; RESINS; TENSILE STRENGTH; TENSILE TESTING; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS;

DYNAMIC MECHANICAL ANALYSIS (DMA); EPOXY; EXPERIMENTAL SPECIMENS; GRAPHENE NANOPLATELETS; HOMOGENEOUS MIXTURES; REINFORCEMENT EFFECTS; THERMAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; UNSATURATED POLYESTER;

NANOCOMPOSITES;

EID: 84940068656     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ma8085262     Document Type: Article

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