Tensile properties of long aligned double-walled carbon nanotube strands

Carbon

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 31-35

  Li, Yijun ^a   Wang, Kunlin ^a   Wei, Jinquan ^a   Gu, Zhiyi ^a   Wang, Zhicheng ^a   Luo, Jianbin ^a   Wu, Dehai ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

A. Carbon nanotubes; B. Chemical vapor deposition; D. Mechanical properties

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CARBON FIBERS; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; DEFORMATION; ELASTIC MODULI; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; POLYVINYL CHLORIDES; REINFORCED PLASTICS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SCHEMATIC DIAGRAMS; STRAIN; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; STRESS ANALYSIS; TENSILE STRENGTH; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

DOUBLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE STRANDS; GEOMETRIC PROPERTIES; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY (HRTEM); MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWNT);

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 9444265323     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2004.08.017     Document Type: Article

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