In-situ welding carbon nanotubes into a porous solid with super-high compressive strength and fatigue resistance

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Lin, Zhiqiang ^a   Gui, Xuchun ^a   Gan, Qiming ^a   Chen, Wenjun ^a   Cheng, Xiaoping ^a   Liu, Ming ^a   Zhu, Yuan ^a   Yang, Yanbing ^b   Cao, Anyuan ^b   Tang, Zikang ^a,c  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

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EID: 84931275467     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep11336     Document Type: Article

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