Tensile loading of ropes of single wall carbon nanotubes and their mechanical properties

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 84, Issue 24, 2000, Pages 5552-5555

  Yu, Min Feng ^a   Files, Bradley S ^b   Arepalli, Sivaram ^c   Ruoff, Rodney S ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^c LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CARBON; ELASTIC MODULI; LOADS (FORCES); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRESSES; TENSILE PROPERTIES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CRITICAL TENSILE STRAIN; SINGLE WALL CARBON NANOTUBES; TENSILE LOADING;

NANOTUBES;

EID: 4244187838     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.5552     Document Type: Article

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