Publication: Percolation and Film Formation Behaviors of MWNT/PS Nanocomposites
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AbstractThis study involves the investigation of film formation and electrical conductivity properties of polystrene (PS) latex/multi-walled Carbon nanotube (MWNT) composites. Films prepared from PS/MWNT mixtures with different MWNT content were separately annealed above glass transition temperature of PS. Film formation stages of PS/MWNT composites were followed by monitoring the change in transmitted light intensity, \tr The surface conductivity of films was found to increase dramatically above 4 wt% MWNT following the percolation theory. The conductivity scales with the mass fraction of MWNT as a power law with exponent 2.27, extremely close to the value of 2.0 predicted by percolation theory.
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Procedia Engineering
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1877-7058
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Conductivity, Photon Transmission, Percolation, PS Latex, Mwcnt, Mwcnt, Conductivity, Percolation, Composite film, Photon Transmission, Engineering(all)