Elastic modulus of ordered and disordered multiwalled carbon nanotubes

Advanced Materials

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 161-165

  Salvetat, Jean Paul ^a   Kulik, Andrzej J ^a   Bonard, Jean Marc ^a   Briggs, G Andrew D ^b   Stöckli, Thomas ^a   Méténier, Karine ^c   Bonnamy, Sylvie ^c   Béguin, François ^c   Burnham, Nancy A ^a   Forró, László ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c CNRS/CRMD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CARBON; ELASTIC MODULI; ELECTRIC ARCS; HYDROCARBONS; PYROLYSIS; STACKING FAULTS;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES;

NANOTUBES;

EID: 0032648185     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-4095(199902)11:2<161::AID-ADMA161>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Article

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