Competing elastic and adhesive interactions govern deformation behaviors of aligned carbon nanotube arrays

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Yang, Xiaodong ^a,b   He, Pengfei ^a   Gao, Huajian ^b  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Brown University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIVE INTERACTION; ALIGNED CARBON NANOTUBES; BEAD-SPRING MODELS; CARBON NANOTUBE ARRAY; COMPLEX DEFORMATION; DEFORMATION BEHAVIOR; MESOSCALE; MICRO-SCALES; VERTICALLY ALIGNED CARBON NANOTUBE;

DEFORMATION;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 84864701569     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4739414     Document Type: Article

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