Insights into Epoxy Network Nanostructural Heterogeneity Using AFM-IR

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 959-966

  Morsch, Suzanne ^a   Liu, Yanwen ^a   Lyon, Stuart B ^a   Gibbon, Simon R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b AKZONOBEL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AFM IR; epoxy resin; heterogeneity; nanostructure; network formation

Indexed keywords

HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; NANOSTRUCTURES;

AFM; DIRECT OBSERVATIONS; HETEROGENEITY; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPOSITES; MATRIX COMPONENTS; MOLECULAR NETWORKS; NANOSTRUCTURAL; NETWORK FORMATION;

EPOXY RESINS;

EID: 84954410043     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b10767     Document Type: Article

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