Interfacial load transfer in polymer/carbon nanotube nanocomposites with a nanohybrid shish kebab modification

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 17, 2014, Pages 14886-14893

  Nie, Min ^a   Kalyon, Dilhan M ^a   Fisher, Frank T ^a  

^a Stevens Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

carbon nanotubes; interfacial load transfer; nanohybrid shish kebab (NHSK); NHSK growth mechanism; nylon 11; semicrystalline polymers

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; ESTERS; HIGH DENSITY POLYETHYLENES; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NANOCOMPOSITES; NYLON POLYMERS; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; RAYON; SHEAR STRESS; TENSILE STRENGTH; THERMAL EXPANSION;

GROWTH MECHANISMS; LOAD TRANSFER; NANOHYBRID SHISH-KEBABS; NYLON 11; SEMI-CRYSTALLINE POLYMER;

POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES;

EID: 84907833879     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am501879q     Document Type: Article

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