Evaluation of the thermal, mechanical and dynamic mechanical characteristics of modified graphite nanoplatelets and graphene oxide high-density polyethylene composites

Composites Part B: Engineering

Volumn 132, Issue , 2018, Pages 61-68

  Lin, Sean ^a   Anwer, Muhammad A S ^a   Zhou, Yannan ^a   Sinha, Apoorv ^c   Carson, Luke ^c   Naguib, Hani E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c Carbon Upcycling Technologies Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

Mechanical properties; Polymer matrix composites (PMCs); Thermal analysis

Indexed keywords

ALIPHATIC COMPOUNDS; DYNAMICS; FILLERS; GRAPHENE; HIGH DENSITY POLYETHYLENES; INJECTION MOLDING; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; THERMOANALYSIS;

CRYSTALLIZATION TEMPERATURE; DYNAMIC MECHANICAL; HIGH DENSITY POLYETHYLENE COMPOSITES; HIGH DENSITY POLYETHYLENE MATRIXES; MODIFIED GRAPHITES; POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES (PMCS); PROPERTY IMPROVEMENT; REINFORCING FILLERS;

POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES;

EID: 85028535815     PISSN: 13598368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesb.2017.08.010     Document Type: Article

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