Post-Treatments for Multifunctional Property Enhancement of Carbon Nanotube Fibers from the Floating Catalyst Method

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 7948-7956

  Tran, Thang Q ^a   Fan, Zeng ^a   Mikhalchan, Anastasiia ^a   Liu, Peng ^a   Duong, Hai M ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

acid treatment; carbon nanotube fibers; electrical conductivity; epoxy infiltration; mechanical strength; post treatment

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC MODULI; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FIBERS; NANOTUBES; SPINNING (FIBERS); STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; TENSILE STRENGTH; YARN;

ACID TREATMENTS; CARBON NANOTUBE FIBERS; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; FLOATING CATALYST METHOD; MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES; MULTIFUNCTIONAL PERFORMANCE; MULTIFUNCTIONAL PROPERTIES; POST TREATMENT;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 84963800996     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b09912     Document Type: Article

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