Failure mechanism of free standing single-walled carbon nanotube thin films under tensile load

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 3540-3544

  Malik, Sharali ^a   Rösner, Harald ^a   Hennrich, Frank ^a   Böttcher, Artur ^b   Kappes, Manfred M ^a,b   Beck, Tilmann ^b   Auhorn, Markus ^b  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FILM; MEASUREMENT; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 4043152049     PISSN: 14639076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b315300b     Document Type: Article

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