Construction of an Interconnected Nanostructured Carbon Black Network: Development of Highly Stretchable and Robust Elastomeric Conductors

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 119, Issue 37, 2015, Pages 21723-21731

  Bhagavatheswaran, Eshwaran Subramani ^a,b   Parsekar, Meenali ^a   Das, Amit ^a,d   Le, Hai Hong ^a,c   Wiessner, Sven ^a,b   Stöckelhuber, Klaus Werner ^a   Schmaucks, Gerd ^e   Heinrich, Gert ^a,b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF POLYMER RESEARCH DRESDEN   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c Institut für Polymerwerkstoffe EV ^*  (Germany)

^d TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^e Elkem Carbon AS   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTOMERS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FILLERS; RUBBER; RUBBER INDUSTRY; STYRENE; TENSILE STRENGTH; UNLOADING;

CARBON BLACK PARTICLES; CONDUCTIVE CARBON BLACKS; ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; HIGH ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; LOADING-UNLOADING CYCLES; SOLUTION STYRENE BUTADIENE RUBBERS; SPHERICAL SILICA PARTICLES;

CARBON BLACK;

EID: 84941928016     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b06629     Document Type: Article

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