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Electrical Percolation studies of Polystyrene-multi wall carbon nanotubes Composites

Bhatia, Ravi and Prasad, V and Reghu, M (2009) Electrical Percolation studies of Polystyrene-multi wall carbon nanotubes Composites. In: International Conference on Transport and Optical Properties of Nanomaterials (ICTOPON 2009), JAN 05-08, 2009, Allahabad, INDIA, pp. 402-408.

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Abstract

Composites of Polystyrene-multi wall carbon nanotubes (PS-MWNTs) were prepared with loading up to 7 wt% of MWNTs by simple solvent mixing and drying technique. MWNTs with high aspect ratio similar to 4000 were used to make the polymer composites. A very high degree of dispersion of MWNTs was achieved by ultrasonication technique. As a result of high dispersion and high aspect ratio of the MWNTs electrical percolation was observed at rather low weight fraction similar to 0.0021. Characterization of the as prepared PS-MWNTs composites was done by Electron microscopy (EM), X-ray diffraction technique (XRD) and Thermogravimetery analysis (TGA).

Item Type: Conference Paper
Series.: AIP Conference Proceedings
Publisher: American Institute of physics
Additional Information: Copyright for this article belongs to American Institute of physics.
Keywords: Polymer composite; carbon nanotube; aspect ratio
Department/Centre: Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Physics
Date Deposited: 10 Dec 2009 09:40
Last Modified: 10 Dec 2009 09:40
URI: http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/24830

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