Materials science: Super-compressible foamlike carbon nanotube films

Science

Volumn 310, Issue 5752, 2005, Pages 1307-1310

  Cao, Anyuan ^a   Dickrell, Pamela L ^b   Sawyer, W Gregory ^b   Ghasemi Nejhad, Mehrdad N ^a   Ajayan, Pulickel M ^c  

^a University of Hawaii at Manoa   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUCKLING; COATINGS; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; FOAMS; THIN FILMS;

BREATHABILITY; ENERGY-ABSORBING COATINGS; SUPER COMPRESSIBLE FOAMLIKE CARBON NANOTUBES; ZIGZAG BUCKLES;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

CARBON NANOTUBE; FERROCENE; LATEX; POLYURETHAN; RUBBER; XYLENE;

NANOTECHNOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; FILM; HUMIDITY; HYSTERESIS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; TEMPERATURE; TENSILE STRENGTH; THICKNESS; VISCOELASTICITY;

EID: 28144446036     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1118957     Document Type: Article

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