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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Nanomaterials Volume 2012, Article ID 275637, 9 pages doi:10.1155/2012/275637 Research Article Effects of Surface Modification of MWCNT on the Mechanical and Electrical Properties of Fluoro Elastomer/MWCNT Nanocomposites Tao Xu1 and Jinghui Yang2 1 Institute of Chemical Materials, Chinese Academy of Engineering Physics, Mianyang 621900, China 2 Department of Polymer Materials and State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China Correspondence should be addressed to Tao Xu, xuzhtao@126.com Received 11 October 2011; Accepted 13 January 2012 Academic Editor: Sulin Zhang Copyright © 2012 T. Xu and J. Yang. 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. Surface modification is a good way to improve the surface activity and interfacial strength of multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) when used as fillers in the polymer composites. Among the reported methods for nanotube modification, mixed acid oxidation and plasma treatment is often used by introducing polar groups to the sidewall of MWCNT successfully. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of different surface modification of MWCNT on the mechanical property and electrical conducti- vity of Fluoro-elastomer (FE)/MWCNT nanocomposites. MWCNTs were surface modified by mixed oxidation and CF4 plasma treatment and then used to reinforce the fluoro elastomer (FE, a copolymer of trifluorochloroethylene and polyvinylidene fluo- ride). FE/MWCNT composite films were prepared from mixture solutions of ethylacetate and butylacetate, using untreated CNTs