Novel Carbon Nanotube/Cellulose Composite Fibers As Multifunctional Materials

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 40, 2015, Pages 22404-22412

  Qi, Haisong ^a   Schulz, Björn ^b   Vad, Thomas ^b   Liu, Jianwen ^a   Mäder, Edith ^a   Seide, Gunnar ^b   Gries, Thomas ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF POLYMER RESEARCH DRESDEN   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

carbon nanotubes; cellulose; composite fibers; multifunctional materials; sensors

Indexed keywords

CELLULOSE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FIBERS; NANOTUBES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SENSORS; SPINNING (FIBERS); TENSILE STRAIN; TENSILE TESTING; X RAY DIFFRACTION; YARN;

COMPOSITE FIBERS; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICAL RESISTANCE MEASUREMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL HUMIDITIES; FLEXIBLE COMPOSITES; MULTI-FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS; VOLUME RESISTIVITY; WIDE ANGLE XRAY DIFFRACTION;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

CARBON; CELLULOSE; COMPOSITES; FIBERS; SENSORS;

EID: 84944348273     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b06229     Document Type: Article

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