Buckling initiation and displacement dependence in compression of vertically aligned carbon nanotube arrays

Carbon

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3190-3199

  Cao, Changhong ^a   Reiner, Alex ^a   Chung, Chunhui ^a   Chang, Shuo Hung ^b   Kao, Imin ^a   Kukta, Robert V ^a   Korach, Chad S ^a  

^a Stony Brook University   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLIED STRAIN; CARBON NANOTUBE ARRAY; COMPRESSIVE STRAIN; CRITICAL STRAINS; FREE SURFACES; LOCALIZED BUCKLING; NANOTUBE ARRAYS; NEAR-SURFACE; SILICON SUBSTRATES; SLIDING CONTACTS; TEST SPECIMENS; THERMAL CONTACT; TUNABLE DAMPER; VERTICALLY ALIGNED CARBON NANOTUBE; VERTICALLY ALIGNED CNT ARRAYS;

CARBON NANOTUBES; FOAMS; NANOINDENTATION;

BUCKLING;

EID: 79957569369     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2011.03.043     Document Type: Article

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