Orientation of carbon nanotubes in a sheared polymer melt

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1196-1202

  Hobbie, E K ^a   Wang, H ^a   Kim, H ^a   Lin Gibson, S ^a   Grulke, E A ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR STRESS; SOLUTIONS; VORTEX FLOW;

SEMIFLEXIBLE TUBES;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

COMPOSITE; ELASTICITY; FLOW FIELD; HYDRODYNAMICS; NANOTUBE; ORIENTATION; POLYMER MELT; SHEAR RATE;

EID: 0037592847     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1562161     Document Type: Article

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19. Any free charge in the fullerene sheets will be mobile, and the polarizability parallel to the long axis of the tube is thus expected to be larger than that normal to this axis. The overall tube director is defined by the mean orientation of the tube. In the expressions for the four structure factors given in the text, the mean polarizability and anisotropy are defined as α= (α + 2α.)/3 and δ=(α - α,), respectively, where α and α, denote the polarizability along directions parallel (∥) and perpendicular (⊥) to the director.
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