Tensile Mechanics of Electrospun Multiwalled Nanotube/Poly(methyl methacrylate) Nanofibers

2007124 citationsJournal Article

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Luqi Liu · Weizmann Institute of Science

Dimitrios Tasis · National Interuniversity Consortium of Materials Science and Technology

H. Daniel Wagner · Weizmann Institute of Science

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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.

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Carbon Nanotubes in Composites Electrospun Nanofibers in Biomedical Applications Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials

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Published in: Advanced Materials

Volume 19, Issue 9, pp. 1228-1233

DOI: 10.1002/adma.200602226

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Tensile Mechanics of Electrospun Multiwalled Nanotube/Poly(methyl methacrylate) Nanofibers

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