Zipping, entanglement, and the elastic modulus of aligned single-walled carbon nanotube films

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 51, 2013, Pages 20426-20430

  Won, Yoonjin ^a   Gao, Yuan ^a   Panzer, Matthew A ^a   Xiang, Rong ^b   Maruyam, Shigeo ^c   Kenny, Thomas W ^a   Cai, Wei ^a   Goodsons, Kenneth E ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Energy conversion; Nanostructured materials; Thermal interface materials; Thermoelectrics; Van der Waals

Indexed keywords

NANOFILM; SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENERGY CONVERSION; ENERGY RECOVERY; MICROTECHNOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; YOUNG MODULUS;

EID: 84890817981     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1312253110     Document Type: Article

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