Bonding strength of a carbon nanofiber array to its substrate

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2922-2926

  Zhang, Yi ^a,b   Suhir, Ephraim ^a,b   Xu, Yuan ^a,b   Gu, Claire ^a,b  

^a Nanoconduction Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAILURE (MECHANICAL); INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MATERIALS TESTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SHEAR STRESS; SHEARING; SUBSTRATES;

ANALYTICAL STRESS MODEL; CARBON NANOFIBER ARRAY (CNFA); FORCE-AT-FAILURE; SHEAR-OFF STRESS;

CARBON FIBERS;

EID: 33751412596     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/JMR.2006.0357     Document Type: Article

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