Study on lowering the percolation threshold of carbon nanotube-filled conductive polypropylene composites

Carbon Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 117-124

  Park, Seung Bin ^a   Lee, Moo Sung ^b   Park, Min ^c  

^a Seoul 05551   (South Korea)

^b Chonnam National University   (South Korea)

^c Korea Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Conductive polymer composite; Multi walled carbon nanotube; Polypropylene

Indexed keywords

EID: 85000817554     PISSN: 19764251     EISSN: 22334998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5714/CL.2014.15.2.117     Document Type: Article

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