Planar Porous Graphene Woven Fabric/Epoxy Composites with Exceptional Electrical, Mechanical Properties, and Fracture Toughness

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 38, 2015, Pages 21455-21464

  Liu, Xu ^a   Sun, Xinying ^a   Wang, Zhenyu ^a   Shen, Xi ^a   Wu, Ying ^a   Kim, Jang Kyo ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

anisotropic properties; fracture toughness; graphene woven fabric; orthogonal graphene tubes; porous structure

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BRITTLENESS; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; CRACK PROPAGATION; CRACK TIPS; CRACKS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FRACTURE; GRAPHENE; TOUGHNESS; WEAVING;

ANISOTROPIC PROPERTY; CRACK-GROWTH DIRECTION; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; HIGH ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; MECHANICAL AND FRACTURE PROPERTIES; MORPHOLOGICAL FEATURES; POROUS STRUCTURES; WOVEN FABRICS;

FRACTURE TOUGHNESS;

EID: 84942887077     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b06476     Document Type: Article

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