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Carbon nanotubes have excellent electrical, thermal, and mechanical properties as determined theoretically and experimentally. Their properties make them great candidates for use in a number of applications ranging from lightning strike...
Carbon nanotubes have attracted tremendous attention in both industrial and academic world due to their incomparable attributes in various areas since their first discovery. In recent years, as one of the most distinctive applications, ...
Carbon nanotubes have exceptional mechanical and functional properties and are considered by many as the most promising reinforcement for the next generation high performance nanostructured materials. Tubes dispersion and interfacial...
The discovery of carbon nanotubes brought on a whole new world of nanotechnology. Various forms of carbon materials were developed, including single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT), multi-walled carbon nanotube (MWNT), and carbon nanofiber...
The Buckypaper/Nafion composite actuator (BCA) is promising for lightweight and micro-robotic system applications. Lightweight BCA provides an energy-efficient and flexible design to achieve muscle-like actuation for micro-actuator...
Many researchers proposed the use of carbon nanotubes as an advanced metal catalyst support for electrocatalysis applications. In this research, buckypaper (thin film of preformed nanotube network) electrodes with different weight ratios...
The improvement of electrical energy storage (EES) devices such as batteries and electrochemical capacitors (ECs) is crucial to the widespread adoption of electric drive vehicles and the increased mobility of portable electronics. This...
The improvement of electrical energy storage (EES) devices such as batteries and electrochemical capacitors (ECs) is crucial to the widespread adoption of electric drive vehicles and the increased mobility of portable electronics. This...
Since carbon nanotubes (CNTs) were first discovered in 1990, many researchers have been striving to learn more about their remarkable mechanical and physical properties. With these exceptional properties, CNTs are considered by...
Since their discovery in 1991, carbon nanotubes have undergone intensive research. The single-walled carbon nanotube, or SWNT, has a unique electronic structure. According to their chirality, they can be either metallic or semiconductors...
In order to obtain an increased through-thickness thermal conductivity in carbon fiber reinforced composites, a novel method using heterogeneously structured resin with conductive filler was studied. Samples were produced using an...
For developing high performance carbon nanotube-reinforced polymer composites, uniform nanotube dispersion, good nanotube/matrix wetting and interfacial bonding, controlled alignment and high tube loading are critical issues. A novel...
Carbon nanotubes are theoretically one of the strongest and stiffest materials with a calculated tensile strength of ~200 giga Pascal and modulus of more than 1-4 tera Pascal for a single walled nanotube (SWNT). If the mechanical...
Buckypapers are thin films of nanostructured membranes made from carbon nanotubes (CNTs), which are amazingly strong nanomaterials that measure 1/50, 000th the diameter of a human hair. Buckypapers have outstanding thermal, electrical and...
Since the discovery of Carbon Nanotubes in 1991, nanotechnology has come to a new episode. One of the new applications of single walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) is to develop high performance actuators. Nanotube actuation mechanism...
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