Increasing the interfacial strength in carbon fiber/epoxy composites by controlling the orientation and length of carbon nanotubes grown on the fibers

Carbon

Volumn 49, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 4665-4673

  Lv, Peng ^a   Feng, Yi Yu ^a   Zhang, Peng ^a   Chen, Hui Min ^a   Zhao, Naiqin ^a   Feng, Wei ^a  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY ACTION; CONTACT INTERFACE; EPOXY COMPOSITE; GROWTH TIME; INJECTION CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; INTERFACIAL SHEAR STRENGTH; INTERFACIAL STRENGTH; OPTIMUM LENGTH; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE;

CARBON FIBERS; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); RESINS; SHEAR STRENGTH; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACE TREATMENT;

EPOXY RESINS;

EID: 80051788054     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2011.06.064     Document Type: Article

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