Molecular dynamics simulations of interfacial sliding in carbon-nanotube/diamond nanocomposites

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 92, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2331-2336

  Li, Lili ^a,c   Xia, Zhenhai H ^a   Curtin, William A ^b   Yang, Yanqing Q ^c  

^a The University of Akron   (United States)

^b Brown University   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE STRENGTH; FRICTION COEFFICIENTS; FRICTION STRESS; INTERFACE CHEMISTRY; INTERFACE FRICTION; INTERFACE ROUGHNESS; INTERFACIAL FRICTION; INTERFACIAL SLIDING; INTERWALL; MATRIX; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; MULTI-WALL CARBON NANOTUBES; NANO SCALE; NANOCERAMIC COMPOSITES; PULL-OUT FORCE; RADIAL PRESSURE; SINGLE-WALL; VAN DER WAALS INTERACTIONS;

CARBON NANOTUBES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION); TRIBOLOGY; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

FRICTION;

EID: 70349559719     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: 15512916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-2916.2009.03214.x     Document Type: Article

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