Material characterization and modeling of single-wall carbon nanotube/polyelectrolyte multilayer nanocomposites

Journal of Applied Mechanics, Transactions ASME

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 737-744

  Huang, Gang ^a   Wang, Bo ^a   Lu, Hongbing ^a   Mamedov, Arif ^b   Gupta, Sachin ^b  

^a Oklahoma State University   (United States)

^b Nomadics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MULTILAYER NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOINDENTATION; RELAXATION MODULUS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INDENTATION; MULTILAYERS; POLYELECTROLYTES; STIFFNESS; VOLUME FRACTION;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 33748423104     PISSN: 00218936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2206196     Document Type: Conference Paper

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