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Tensile Mechanics of Electrospun Multiwalled Nanotube/Poly(methyl methacrylate) Nanofibers
Author(s) -
Liu L.Q.,
Tasis D.,
Prato M.,
Wagner H. D.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/adma.200602226
Subject(s) - materials science , nanofiber , ultimate tensile strength , composite material , weibull distribution , nanotube , modulus , young's modulus , poisson's ratio , methyl methacrylate , poisson distribution , carbon nanotube , polymer , statistics , copolymer , mathematics
Carbon‐nanotube‐reinforced, single electrospun PMMA nanofibers (see figure) exhibit an improved Young's modulus and tensile strength relative to unreinforced PMMA nanofibers. The Young's modulus data fits well with the theoretical prediction of the Halpin–Tsai equation. The tensile strength data shows a relatively large variability, which can adequately be fitted by Poisson–Weibull statistics.