Determination of mechanical properties of carbon nanotubes and vertically aligned carbon nanotube forests using nanoindentation

Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids

Volumn 51, Issue 11-12, 2003, Pages 2213-2237

  Qi, H J ^a   Teo, K B K ^b   Lau, K K S ^a   Boyce, M C ^a   Milne, W I ^b   Robertson, J ^b   Gleason, K K ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

A. Nanoindentation; B. Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes; Mechanical Properties; Nanofibers; Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BENDING (DEFORMATION); COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDROPHOBICITY; INDENTATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MICROELECTRONICS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; STATISTICAL METHODS; STIFFNESS; SURFACES; VACUUM;

ATOMIC SIMULATIONS; NANOINDENTATION;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 0344981298     PISSN: 00225096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmps.2003.09.015     Document Type: Conference Paper

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