Stretching-dominated deformation mechanism in a super square carbon nanotube network

Carbon

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 812-819

  Li, Ying ^a   Qiu, XinMing ^a   Yang, Fan ^a   Yin, Yajun ^a,b   Fan, Qinshan ^a,b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING TECH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOTUBES; POISSON RATIO; PRESSURE DROP; STIFFNESS;

DEFORMATION MECHANISMS; MATE RIAL PROPERTIES; NANO TUBE; POISSON; STRUCTURE MECHANICS;

ASPECT RATIO;

EID: 58549095037     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2008.11.035     Document Type: Article

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