In situ scanning electron microscope peeling to quantify surface energy between multiwalled carbon nanotubes and graphene

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 124-138

  Roenbeck, Michael R ^a   Wei, Xiaoding ^a   Beese, Allison M ^a,c   Naraghi, Mohammad ^a,d   Furmanchuk, Al'Ona ^b   Paci, Jeffrey T ^b,e   Schatz, George C ^b   Espinosa, Horacio D ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

adhesion energy; carbon nanotubes; chemical functionalization; graphene; in situ SEM testing; molecular mechanics

Indexed keywords

ADHESION ENERGY; AMORPHOUS CARBON COATING; ATOMIC INTERACTIONS; CHEMICAL FUNCTIONALIZATION; EFFECTIVE CONTACT; IN-SITU SEM; MOLECULAR MECHANICS SIMULATION; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBE (MWCNTS);

ADHESION; AMORPHOUS CARBON; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CARBON NANOTUBES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84893457574     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn402485n     Document Type: Article

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