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Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 359034, 9 pages
doi:10.5402/2012/359034
Research Article

Electrical Behaviors of Flame Retardant Huntite and Hydromagnesite Reinforced Polymer Composites

Hüsnügül Yılmaz Atay1,2 and Erdal Çelik1,2

1Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Dokuz Eylül University, Tınaztepe Campus, 35160 Izmir, Turkey
2Center for Fabrication and Applications of Electronic Materials (EMUM), Dokuz Eylül University, Tınaztepe Campus, 35160 Izmir, Turkey

Received 2 August 2012; Accepted 28 August 2012

Academic Editors: A. F. Halasa and A. Mousa

Copyright © 2012 Hüsnügül Yılmaz Atay and Erdal Çelik. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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