Cyclic Moisture Sorption and its Effects on the Thermomechanical Properties of Epoxy and Epoxy/MWCNT Nanocomposite

Tatjana Glaskova-Kuzmina1, Andrey Aniskevich2, Jevgenijs Sevcenko2

  • 1Institute for Mechanics of Materials, University of Latvia, Jelgavas 3, LV-1006 Riga, Latvia. tatjana.glaskova@pmi.lu.lv.

Polymers
|August 28, 2019
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