Structural stability of carbon nanotube films: The role of bending buckling

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 6187-6195

  Volkov, Alexey N ^a   Zhigilei, Leonid V ^a  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

bending buckling; buckypaper; carbon nanotube materials; mesoscopic simulations; stability of network materials

Indexed keywords

BENDING BUCKLING; BENDING ENERGIES; BUCKYPAPER; CARBON NANOTUBE FILMS; CRITICAL LENGTH; DEFECT-FREE; ENTANGLED NETWORKS; MESOSCOPIC DYNAMICS; MESOSCOPIC SIMULATION; NETWORK STRUCTURES; SINGLE-WALLED; STABLE NETWORK; STRUCTURAL STABILITIES;

BUCKLING; CARBON FILMS; CARBON NANOTUBES; STABILITY; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; SWITCHING CIRCUITS; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

CARBON NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; KINETICS; MATERIALS; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE; TIME;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; KINETICS; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 78049323682     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn1015902     Document Type: Article

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