Mechanical properties of continuously spun fibers of carbon nanotubes

Nano Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1529-1533

  Motta, Marcelo ^a   Li, Ya Li ^a   Kinloch, Ian ^a   Windle, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROGELS; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; DISSOCIATION; FIBERS; OPTIMIZATION; STIFFNESS; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

CATALYST CONCENTRATION; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; PROCESS CONDITIONS; STRONG FIBERS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

CARBON NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELASTICITY; MATERIALS TESTING; MECHANICAL STRESS; MECHANICS; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; TENSILE STRENGTH; TEXTILE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ELASTICITY; MATERIALS TESTING; MECHANICS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PARTICLE SIZE; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TENSILE STRENGTH; TEXTILES;

EID: 24344457679     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl050634+     Document Type: Article

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