Strength and breaking mechanism of multiwalled carbon nanotubes under tensile load

Science

Volumn 287, Issue 5453, 2000, Pages 637-640

  Yu, Min Feng ^a   Lourie, Oleg ^a   Dyer, Mark J ^b   Moloni, Katerina ^c   Kelly, Thomas F ^c   Ruoff, Rodney S ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Zyvex Labs LLC   (United States)

^c University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; TENSILE STRENGTH; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TUBE; YOUNG MODULUS;

EID: 0034723247     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.287.5453.637     Document Type: Article

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