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Item Specific rheological and electrical features of carbon nanotube dispersions in an epoxy matrix(2010-05) Chapartegui, M.; Markaide, N.; Florez, S.; Elizetxea, C.; Fernandez, M.; Santamaría, A.; POLIMEROSThe rheological analysis of epoxy pre-polymer/MWCNT dispersions indicates that a physical network is formed. This is destroyed with an imposed shear, giving a viscoplastic and shear thinning behavior. Such destruction is not reflected in dynamic viscoelastic experiments, due to the very rapid recovery of the MWCNT network in the pre-polymer matrix. This responds to the observed lower electrical than rheological percolation threshold. Electrical conductivity results fulfill electron hopping/tunnelling mechanism, which implies a tube-tube distance close to 5. nm. However, rheological percolation requires nanotubes should touch each other, since no polymer chains are implied in the network.