Multiwalled carbon nanotube / nanofiber arrays as conductive and dry adhesive interface materials

Proceedings of the 3rd ASME Integrated Nanosystems Conference - Design, Synthesis, and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 7-12

  Tong, Tao ^a   Zhao, Yang ^b   Delzeit, Lance ^c   Kashani, Ali ^b   Majumdar, Arun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Atlas Scientific Inc   (United States)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIVES; ARRAYS; CATALYSTS; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LASER ABLATION; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

ADHESIVE INTERFACES; CONTACT INTERFACES; CONTACT RESISTANCE; ELECTRICAL TRANSPORT; NANOFIBER ARRAYS; SURFACE DEGRADATION;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 21244464351     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/nano2004-46013     Document Type: Conference Paper

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