Effects of vacancy defects on the interfacial shear strength of carbon nanotube reinforced polymer composite

Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 739-745

  Chowdhury, Sanjib Chandra ^a   Okabe, Tomonaga ^b   Nishikawa, Masaaki ^b  

^a BANGLADESH UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (Bangladesh)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Interfacial strength; Molecular dynamics; Polymer matrix composites; Vacancy defect

Indexed keywords

BRENNER POTENTIAL; CARBON NANOTUBE-REINFORCED POLYMER COMPOSITES; CARBON-CARBON INTERACTION; DIFFERENT SIZES; HEXAGONAL ARRAYS; INTERFACIAL SHEAR STRENGTH; INTERFACIAL STRENGTH; LARGE SIZES; LENNARD-JONES POTENTIAL; MATRIX; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; POLYETHYLENE CHAINS; POLYETHYLENE COMPOSITES; POLYETHYLENE MATRIX; POLYMER CHAINS; POLYMER SYSTEMS; PULL-OUT; SIMULATION RESULT; TOTAL POTENTIAL ENERGY; VACANCY DEFECT; VACANCY DEFECTS; VAN DER WAALS INTERACTIONS;

ATOMS; CARBON NANOTUBES; DEFECTS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; POLYETHYLENES; POLYMER MATRIX; REINFORCEMENT; SHEAR STRENGTH; THERMOPLASTICS; VACANCIES; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES;

EID: 77954966090     PISSN: 15334880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1166/jnn.2010.1879     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (28)

1. S. Iijima, Nature 354, 56 (1991).
2. E. T. Thostenson, Z. F. Ren, and T. W. Chou, Compos. Sci. Technol. 61, 1899 (2001).
3. K. T. Lau and D. Hui, Compos. Part B 33, 263 (2002).
4. V. Desai and M. A. Haque, Thin-Walled Struct. 43, 1787 (2005).
5. E. T. Thostenson, W. Z. Li, D. Z. Wang, Z. F. Ren, and T. W. Chou, J. App. Phys. 91, 6034 (2002).
6. A. Hashimoto, K. Suenaga, A. Gloter, K. Urita, and S. Iijima, Nature 430, 870 (2004).
7. S. L. Mielke, D. Troya, S. Zhang, J. L. Li, S. P. Xiao, R. Car, R. S. Ruoff, G. C. Schatz, and T. Belytschko, Chem. Phys. Lett. 413, 390 (2004).
8. Y. Hirai, S. Nishimaki, H. Mori, Y. Kimoto, S. Akita, Y. Nakayama, and Y. Tanaka, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 42, 4120 (2003).
9. C. P. Ewels, R. H. Telling, A. A. El-Barbary, and M. I. Heggie, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 025505 (2003).
10. K. Urita, K. Suenaga, T. Sugai, H. Shinohara, and S. Iijima, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 155502 (2005).
11. R. H. Telling, C. P. Ewels, A. A. El-Babary, and M. I. Higgie, Nature Mater. 2, 333 (2003).
12. A. Kis, G. Csanyi, J.-P. Salvetat, T. Lee, E. Couteau, A. J. Kulik, W. Benoit, J. Brugger, and L. Forro, Nature Mater. 3, 153 (2004).
13. M. Huhtala, A. V. Krasheninnikov, J. Aittoniemi, S. J. Stuart, K. Nordlund, and K. Kaski, Phys. Rev. B 70, 045404 (2004).
14. M. P. Allen and D. J. Tildesley, Computer Simulation of Liquids, Clarendon Press, Oxford (1987).
15. D. W. Brenner, Phys. Rev. B 42, 9458 (1990).
16. S. J. Weiner, P. A. Kollman, D. A. Case, U. C. Singh, C. Ghio, G. Alagona, S. Profeta, Jr., and P. Weiner, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 106, 765 (1984).
17. S. Kuwajima, H. Noma, and T. Ohsaka, Proceedings of the Fourth Symposium of the Society of Computer Chemistry, Japan (1994), Vol. 53.
18. S. C. Chowdhury and T. Okabe, Compos. Part A 38, 747 (2007).
19. T. Belytschko, S. P. Xiao, G. C. Schatz, and R. S. Ruoff, Phys. Rev. B 65, 235430 (2002).
20. W. H. Press, S. A. Teukolsky, W. T. Vetterling, and B. P. Flannery, Numerical Recipes in FORTRAN: The Art of Scientific Computing, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (1994).
21. K. Liao and S. Li, Appl. Phys. Lett. 79, 4225 (2001).
22. H. D. Wagner, O. Lourie, Y. Feldman, and R. Tenne, Appl. Phys. Lett. 72, 188 (1998).
23. C. A. Cooper, S. R. Cohen, A. H. Barber, and H. D. Wagner, Appl. Phys. Lett. 81, 3873 (2002).
24. M. Wong, M. Paramsothy, X. J. Xu, Y. Ren, S. Li, and K. Liao, Polymer 44, 7757 (2003).
25. S. Namilae and N. Chandra, J. Eng. Mater. Technol. 127, 222 (2005).
26. M. Nishikawa, T. Okabe, and T. Honda, J. Mater. Sci. 44, 339 (2009).
27. S. J. V. Frankland, A. Caglar, D. W. Brenner, and M. Griebel, J. Phys. Chem. B 106, 3046 (2002).
28. P. K. Mallick, Fiber-Reinforced Composites: Materials, Manufacturing and Design, Marcel Dekker Inc., New York (1993).