Design and reinforcement: Vertically aligned carbon nanotube-based sandwich composites

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 6798-6804

  Zeng, You ^a,b   Ci, Lijie ^a   Carey, Brent J ^a   Vajtai, Robert ^a   Ajayan, Pulickel M ^a  

^a Rice University   (United States)

^b SHENYANG JIANZHU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Carbon fibers; Carbon nanotubes; Mechanical reinforcement; Sandwich composites; Structural design; Vertical alignment

Indexed keywords

3D ARCHITECTURES; CF/EPOXY; COMPOSITE DESIGNS; EPOXY MATRICES; FLEXURAL RIGIDITIES; INTERFACIAL LAYER; MECHANICAL REINFORCEMENT; POLYMER COMPOSITE; RANDOM ORIENTATIONS; SANDWICH COMPOSITES; SHORT LENGTHS; STRUCTURAL REINFORCEMENT; VERTICAL ALIGNMENT; VERTICALLY ALIGNED; VERTICALLY ALIGNED CARBON NANOTUBE;

ALIGNMENT; CARBON NANOTUBES; DAMPING; INTEGRATION; POLYMERS; REINFORCEMENT; RIGIDITY; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

CARBON FIBERS;

EID: 78649604906     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn101650p     Document Type: Article

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