Three-dimensional Sponges with Super Mechanical Stability: Harnessing True Elasticity of Individual Carbon Nanotubes in Macroscopic Architectures

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Dai, Zhaohe ^a,c,e   Liu, Luqi ^a   Qi, Xiaoying ^a   Kuang, Jun ^a   Wei, Yueguang ^c   Zhu, Hongwei ^b   Zhang, Zhong ^a,b,d  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR NANOSCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF MECHANICS   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

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EID: 84953249372     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep18930     Document Type: Article

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