Simultaneously strong and tough ultrafine continuous nanofibers

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 3324-3331

  Papkov, Dimitry ^a   Zou, Yan ^a   Andalib, Mohammad Nahid ^a   Goponenko, Alexander ^a   Cheng, Stephen Z D ^b   Dzenis, Yuris A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b The University of Akron   (United States)

Author keywords

continuous nanofibers; crystallinity; electrospinning; size effects; strength; toughness

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINITIES; ELECTROSPUN POLYMER NANOFIBERS; HIGH PERFORMANCE POLYMER; POLYACRYLONITRILE NANOFIBERS; SAFETY CRITICAL APPLICATIONS; SIZE EFFECTS; STRENGTH; STRUCTURAL INVESTIGATION;

ELECTROSPINNING; FIBERS; MACROS; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; POLYMERS; RAPID SOLIDIFICATION; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; TOUGHNESS;

NANOFIBERS;

ACRYLIC ACID RESIN; NANOMATERIAL; POLYACRYLONITRILE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; HARDNESS; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY; TENSILE STRENGTH; ULTRASTRUCTURE; YOUNG MODULUS;

ACRYLIC RESINS; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELASTIC MODULUS; HARDNESS; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 84876577669     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn400028p     Document Type: Article

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