N Nadia Grossiord

Strategies for dispersing carbon nanotubes in highly viscous polymers

We describe a new technique based on latex technology, which allows the production of conductive composites with potential applications in electronics. These composites consist of exfoliated single-wall nanotubes in a polymer matrix of choice, with very low percolation threshold.

Chapter 3:Electrically Conductive Polymer–Graphene Composites Prepared Using Latex Technology

The low-cost production of high-performance conductive polymeric composites is eagerly sought after due to the rising cost of materials currently used in the preparation of conductive components, especially in electronics. Factors including the scalable production of polymer-based materials, their l...

Conductive carbon-nanotube - polymer nanocomposites prepared by latex technology

One bottleneck for using CNTs as fillers in polymer-based nanocomposites is that as-produced CNTs invariably exist as aligned aggregates or bundles that are tightly bound by an estimated interaction of 500 eV/µm of tube length for SWCNT or highly entangled in case of MWCNT. Therefore, the dispersion and incorporation of CNTs as individuals in polymer matrices is one of the most important and challenging tasks toward maximizing the translation of CNT properties to the nanocomposites.