Multiwall nanotubes can be stronger than single wall nanotubes and implications for nanocomposite design

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Byrne, E M ^a,c   McCarthy, M A ^a,c   Xia, Z ^b   Curtin, W A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^b The University of Akron   (United States)

^c Brown University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFECT SIZE; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; INTERWALL; LOAD TRANSFER; MECHANICAL REINFORCEMENT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS MODELING; MULTI-WALL CARBON NANOTUBES; MULTIWALL NANOTUBES; NEW DESIGN; PROCESSING METHOD; SINGLE WALL NANOTUBES; SINGLE-WALL CARBON NANOTUBES; STRENGTHENING EFFECT;

BONDING; CARBON NANOTUBES; DEFECTS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 68849125938     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.045502     Document Type: Article

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