Simultaneous measurement of Young's and shear moduli of multiwalled carbon nanotubes using atomic force microscopy

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Guhados, Ganesh ^a,b   Wan, Wankei ^a   Sun, Xueliang ^a   Hutter, Jeffrey L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b Axcelon Biopolymers Corp   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ELASTIC MODULI;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES; TUBE COMPLIANCE;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 33847120752     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2433125     Document Type: Article

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