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Fabrication and Nanocompression Testing of Aligned Carbon‐Nanotube–Polymer Nanocomposites
Author(s) -
García E. J.,
Hart A. J.,
Wardle B. L.,
Slocum A. H.
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.200700237
Subject(s) - nanoindenter , materials science , carbon nanotube , nanocomposite , fabrication , polymer , reinforcement , nanotechnology , composite material , volume fraction , carbon fibers , composite number , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology , nanoindentation
The reinforcement of fiber–polymer composites with arrays of aligned carbon nanotubes (CNTs) is reported. Nanocomposite features containing vertically aligned CNTs and a commercially available polymer are fabricated and mechanically characterized with a direct nanocompression method using a flat punch mounted on a nanoindenter (see figure). The results show a reinforcement of 220 % at a CNT volume fraction of 2 %.