Torsional Response and Stiffening of Individual Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 25, 2002, Pages

  Williams, P A ^a   Papadakis, S J ^a   Patel, A M ^b   Falvo, M R ^b   Washburn, S ^a,b   Superfine, R ^a,b  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTIC MODULI; ELECTRON BEAMS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRESSES; TENSILE PROPERTIES;

FORCE-DISTANCE MEASUREMENTS; MULLIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES; TORTIONAL STRAINS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 0037122348     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.255502     Document Type: Article

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