Interfacial fracture energy measurements for multi-walled carbon nanotubes pulled from a polymer matrix

Composites Science and Technology

Volumn 64, Issue 15 SPEC. ISS., 2004, Pages 2283-2289

  Barber, Asa H ^a   Cohen, Sidney R ^a   Kenig, Shmuel ^b   Wagner, H Daniel ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b SHENKAR COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND DESIGN   (Israel)

Author keywords

Nanotubes

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BUTENES; FRACTURE; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); INTERFACIAL ENERGY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; POLYETHYLENES; POLYMERS;

FRACTURE ENERGY; INTERFACIAL ADHESION; MULTI-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES; PULLOUT FORCES;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

CARBON; COMPOSITE PROPERTY; FRACTURE; INTERFACIAL PROPERTY; MEASURING; NANOTUBE;

EID: 7044250656     PISSN: 02663538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compscitech.2004.01.023     Document Type: Article

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