Reinforcement of single-walled carbon nanotube bundles by intertube bridging

Nature Materials

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 153-157

  Kis, A ^a   Csanyi G ^b   Salvetat, J P ^c   Lee, Thien Nga ^a   Couteau, E ^a   Kulik, A J ^a   Benoit, W ^a   Brugger, J ^a   Forro L ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHIZATION; CHEMICAL BONDS; CROSSLINKING; ELASTIC MODULI; ELECTRON BEAMS; FABRICATION; FIBERS; IRRADIATION; KINETIC ENERGY; TENSILE STRENGTH; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

INTERTUBE FORCES; MACROSCOPIC FIBERS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWNT);

CARBON NANOTUBES;

CARBON NANOTUBE; CROSS LINKING REAGENT;

ARTICLE; BETA RADIATION; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; TENSILE STRENGTH; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BETA RAYS; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NANOTUBES, CARBON; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 1542303722     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1076     Document Type: Article

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