High-performance carbon nanotube fiber

Science

Volumn 318, Issue 5858, 2007, Pages 1892-1895

  Koziol, Krzysztof ^a   Vilatela, Juan ^a   Moisala, Anna ^a   Motta, Marcelo ^a   Cunniff, Philip ^b   Sennett, Michael ^b   Windle, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b DEVELOPMENT AND ENGINEERING CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE; NANOFIBER; POLY(4 PHENYLENE 2,6 BENZOBISOXAZOLE); POLYETHYLENE; POLYMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CARBON; GEL; MECHANICAL PROPERTY; STIFFNESS;

ARTICLE; ENERGY ABSORPTION; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X RAY SPECTROSCOPY; FIBER; MATERIALS; MEASUREMENT; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY; ROENTGEN SPECTROSCOPY; STRENGTH;

EID: 37549011449     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1147635     Document Type: Article

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