Hindered rolling and friction anisotropy in supported carbon nanotubes

Nature Materials

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 876-881

  Lucas, Marcel ^a   Zhang, Xiaohua ^b,e   Palaci, Ismael ^a   Klinke, Christian ^c   Tosatti, Erio ^b,d   Riedo, Elisa ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b SISSA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^d ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^e SUZHOU INSTITUTE OF NANO TECH AND NANO BIONICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; FRICTION; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); NANOTUBES; TRIBOLOGY; YARN;

FRICTION ANISOTROPY; FRICTION COEFFICIENTS; FRICTIONAL DISSIPATION; FRICTIONAL FORCES; FRICTIONAL PROPERTIES; MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES; MULTI-WALL CNT; TIP SLIDING;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 70350505135     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2529     Document Type: Article

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