Experimental-computational study of shear interactions within double-walled carbon nanotube bundles

Nano Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 732-742

  Filleter, Tobin ^a   Yockel, Scott ^b   Naraghi, Mohammad ^a   Paci, Jeffrey T ^b,c   Compton, Owen C ^b   Mayes, Maricris L ^b   Nguyen, Sonbinh T ^b   Schatz, George C ^b   Espinosa, Horacio D ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube bundles; double walled nanotubes; hierarchical structure; in situ SEM testing; shear interactions

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE BUNDLE; DISSIPATION EFFECTS; DOUBLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES; DOUBLE-WALLED NANOTUBES; EXPERIMENTAL ERRORS; FREE END; HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES; HYDROXYL GROUPS; IN-SITU; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR; MUTUAL INTERACTION; OUTER SHELLS; POLYGONIZATION; PULL OUT; PULL-OUT FORCE; SURFACE FUNCTIONAL GROUPS;

FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; POTENTIAL ENERGY;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

CARBON NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; NANOTUBES, CARBON;

EID: 84856967220     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl203686d     Document Type: Article

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