Morphology, electromagnetic properties and electromagnetic interference shielding performance of poly lactide/graphene nanoplatelet nanocomposites

Materials and Design

Volumn 95, Issue , 2016, Pages 119-126

  Kashi, Sima ^a   Gupta, Rahul K ^a   Baum, Thomas ^a   Kao, Nhol ^a   Bhattacharya, Sati N ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic interference shielding; Graphene nanoplatelet; Nanocomposite; Poly lactide

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE INTERFERENCE; MAGNETIC PERMEABILITY; MAGNETIC SHIELDING; NANOCOMPOSITES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SHIELDING; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ELECTRICAL PERMITTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE SHIELDING; ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE SHIELDING EFFECTIVENESS; ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPERTIES; NANOPLATELET; POLY LACTIDE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROGRAPHS; SHIELDING EFFECTIVENESS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC SHIELDING;

EID: 84960102302     PISSN: 02641275     EISSN: 18734197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2016.01.086     Document Type: Article

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