Effect of nanofiber proximity on the mechanical behavior of high volume fraction aligned carbon nanotube arrays
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Cebeci, Hulya Geyik; Stein, Itai Y.; Wardle, Brian L.
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The effect of nanofiber proximity on the mechanical behavior of nanofiber arrays with volume fractions (V f) from 1% to 20% was quantified via nanoindentation of an aligned carbon nanotube (A-CNT) array. The experimental results show that the indentation modulus for A-CNT arrays has a highly non-linear scaling with the CNT V f, leading to modulus enhancements of up to ∼600× at V f = 20%. Modeling illustrates that the origin of the highly non-linear trend with V f is due to the minimum inter-CNT spacing, which is shown to be more than an order of magnitude larger than the graphitic spacing.
Date issued
2014-01Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical EngineeringJournal
Applied Physics Letters
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American Institute of Physics
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Cebeci, Hülya, Itai Y. Stein, and Brian L. Wardle. “Effect of Nanofiber Proximity on the Mechanical Behavior of High Volume Fraction Aligned Carbon Nanotube Arrays.” Appl. Phys. Lett. 104, no. 2 (January 13, 2014): 023117.
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0003-6951
1077-3118