Rubber/Carbon Nanotube Nanocomposite with Hyperelastic Matrix

Subject Areas : Engineering

M Motamedi ¹ , M Moosavi Mashhadi ²

1 - Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Tehran
2 - Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Tehran

Received: 2010-03-02 Accepted : 2010-04-18 Published : 2010-03-30

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