Bioinspired Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes as a Spider Silk Structure for Ultrahigh Mechanical Property

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 45, 2016, Pages 31256-31263

  Luo, Chengzhi ^a   Li, Fangying ^a   Li, Delong ^a   Fu, Qiang ^a,b   Pan, Chunxu ^a,b  

^a Wuhan Universiy   (China)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

biomimetic materials; mechanical properties; reinforcement; single walled carbon nanotubes; spider silk

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS CARBON; BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; BIOMIMETICS; CARBON NANOTUBES; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTUBES; REINFORCEMENT; SILK; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); TENSILE STRENGTH; YARN;

AMORPHOUS CARBON LAYER; BIO-INSPIRED MATERIALS; HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES; HIGH-TENSILE STRENGTH; MULTIFUNCTIONAL COMPOSITES; SKIN-CORE STRUCTURE; SPIDER SILKS; ULTRAHIGH MECHANICAL PROPERTIES;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 84995874949     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b11678     Document Type: Article

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