Coordinated buckling of thick multi-walled carbon nanotubes under uniaxial compression

Nano Research

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 32-42

  Huang, Xu ^a   Yuan, Hongyan ^a   Hsia, K Jimmy ^b   Zhang, Sulin ^a  

^a The Center for Nanotechnology Education and Utilization   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Buckling; Carbon nanotubes; Rippling; Uniaxial compression

Indexed keywords

EID: 74049143864     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-010-1005-5     Document Type: Article

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