Micro-contact reconstruction of adjacent carbon nanotubes in polymer matrix through annealing-Induced relaxation of interfacial residual stress and strain
- Submitting institution
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The University of Bradford
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 51
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1002/app.42416
- Title of journal
- Journal of Applied Polymer Science
- Article number
- 0
- First page
- 0
- Volume
- 132
- Issue
- 33
- ISSN
- 0021-8995
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/app.42416
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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4
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Internationally cooperative experimental and theoretical analysis by Sichuan (TEM) and Bradford University (processing, image analysis) researchers of microinjection moulding of CNT loaded polyurethanes; this high shear strain rate process causes a deterioration in electrical conductivity, with restoration of high conductivity values in the moulded products through annealing. Highly detailed, same site TEM and image analysis of pre and post-annealed specimens shows the mechanism to be a minute change in CNT spacing related to residual stress relaxation (Raman G band shift) in the polymer matrix around the CNTs, to achieve percolation with conductivities similar to no-shear compression moulded specimens.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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