Extraordinary improvement of the graphitic structure of continuous carbon nanofibers templated with double wall carbon nanotubes

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 126-142

  Papkov, Dimitry ^a   Beese, Allison M ^b   Goponenko, Alexander ^a   Zou, Yan ^a   Naraghi, Mohammad ^b   Espinosa, Horacio D ^b   Saha, Biswajit ^c   Schatz, George C ^c   Moravsky, Alexander ^d   Loutfy, Raouf ^d   Nguyen, Sonbinh T ^c   Dzenis, Yuris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MER CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

carbonization templating; continuous carbon nanofibers; double wall carbon nanotubes; graphitic structure; molecular dynamics simulations

Indexed keywords

CARBON MATRIX; CARBONIZATION TEMPERATURES; DOUBLE WALL CARBON NANOTUBE; DOUBLE-WALL CARBON NANOTUBES; DOUBLE-WALL NANOTUBES; FUNCTIONAL APPLICATIONS; GRAPHITIC ORDER; GRAPHITIC STRUCTURES; HIGH VOLUME FRACTION; IN-FIBER; INTERFACIAL BONDING; MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; PULL-OUT; REINFORCING ELEMENTS; SMALL CONCENTRATION; STRESS TRANSFER; STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES; SURROUNDING MATRIX; TEMPLATED; TEMPLATING; TEMPLATING AGENTS; WELL-DISPERSED;

CARBON FIBERS; CARBON NANOFIBERS; CARBON NANOTUBES; CARBONIZATION; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOTUBES;

AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURE;

CARBON NANOTUBE; GRAPHITE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CRYSTALLIZATION; GRAPHITE; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84872853516     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn303423x     Document Type: Article

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