Ultra-strong collagen-mimic carbon nanotube bundles

Carbon

Volumn 77, Issue , 2014, Pages 1040-1053

  Zhang, Zuoqi ^a   Liu, Bin ^b   Zhang, Yong Wei ^a   Hwang, Keh Chih ^b   Gao, Huajian ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Brown University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; COLLAGEN; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MECHANICAL PROPERTIES;

CARBON NANOTUBE BUNDLE; CHAIN MODELS; COLLAGEN FIBER; CROSS-LINK DENSITIES; DIMENSIONLESS PARAMETERS; OPTIMIZED DESIGNS; TENSILE LOADING; WEAK INTERFACE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84905657755     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2014.06.020     Document Type: Article

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