Enhancing mechanical properties of multiwall carbon nanotubes via sp 3 interwall bridging

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 98, Issue 24, 2007, Pages

  Xia, Z H ^a   Guduru, P R ^b   Curtin, W A ^b  

^a The University of Akron   (United States)

^b Brown University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; LOAD LIMITS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODELING; NANOCOMPOSITES;

BUCKLING STRENGTH; CONTINUUM SHEAR-COUPLED-SHELL MODELS; INTERWALL BRIDGING; LOAD TRANSFER;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

EID: 34547337638     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.245501     Document Type: Article

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