Characterization of carbon nanotube webs and yarns with small angle X-ray scattering: Revealing the yarn twist and inter-nanotube interactions and alignment

Carbon

Volumn 63, Issue , 2013, Pages 562-566

  Dumée, Ludovic ^a,b   Sears, Kallista ^c   Mudie, Stephen ^d   Kirby, Nigel ^d   Skourtis, Chris ^a   McDonnell, Jill ^c   Lucas, Stuart ^c   Schütz, Jürg ^c   Finn, Niall ^c   Huynh, Chi ^c   Hawkins, Stephen ^c   Kong, Lingxue ^a   Hodgson, Peter ^a   Duke, Mikel ^b   Gray, Stephen ^b  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d AUSTRALIAN SYNCHROTRON   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; X RAY SCATTERING; YARN;

AZIMUTHAL ANGLE; CARBON NANOTUBE YARNS; MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES; NANOTUBE ALIGNMENT; YARN TWIST;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 84881611560     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2013.06.065     Document Type: Letter

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