Reasons and remedies for the agglomeration of multilayered graphene and carbon nanotubes in polymers

Rasheed Atif and Fawad Inam
Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1174–1196. https://doi.org/10.3762/bjnano.7.109

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Reasons and remedies for the agglomeration of multilayered graphene and carbon nanotubes in polymers
Rasheed Atif and Fawad Inam
Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1174–1196. https://doi.org/10.3762/bjnano.7.109

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Atif, R.; Inam, F. Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1174–1196. doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.109

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