High-performance nanotube-reinforced plastics: Understanding the mechanism of strength increase

Advanced Functional Materials

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 791-798

  Coleman, Jonathan N ^a   Cadek, Martin ^a   Blake, Rowan ^a   Nicolosi, Valeria ^a   Ryan, Kevin P ^a   Belton, Colin ^a   Fonseca, Antonio ^b   Nagy, Janos B ^b   Gun'ko, Yurii K ^a   Blau, Werner J ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC MODULI; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PLASTICS; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; STRESSES; THIN FILMS;

COMPOSITE FILMS; CRYSTALLINE COATINGS; LOAD TRANSFER; STRESS TRANSFER;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 4644323857     PISSN: 1616301X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.200305200     Document Type: Article

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