| dc.contributor.author | COLEMAN, JONATHAN NESBIT | |
| dc.contributor.author | BLAU, WERNER | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2010-07-13T10:24:06Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2010-07-13T10:24:06Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2002 | |
| dc.date.submitted | 2002 | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | Cadek M, Coleman JN, Barron V, Hedicke K, Blau WJ, Morphological and mechanical properties of carbon-nanotube-reinforced semicrystalline and amorphous polymer composites, Applied Physics Letters, 81, 27, 2002, 5123 - 5125 | en |
| dc.identifier.other | Y | |
| dc.description | PUBLISHED | en |
| dc.description.abstract | In this work, multiwalled carbon nanotubes were investigated as potential mechanical reinforcement agents in two hosts, polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) and poly(9-vinyl carbazole) (PVK). It was found that, by adding various concentrations of nanotubes, both Young?s modulus and hardness increased by factors of 1.8 and 1.6 at 1 wt?% in PVA and 2.8 and 2.0 at 8 wt?% in PVK, in reasonable agreement with the Halpin?Tsai theory. Furthermore, the presence of the nanotubes was found to nucleate crystallization of the PVA. This crystal growth is thought to enhance matrix-nanotube stress transfer. In addition, microscopy studies suggest extremely strong interfacial bonding in the PVA-based composite. This is manifested by the fracture of the polymer rather that the polymer-nanotube interface. | en |
| dc.description.sponsorship | The support of the European Union NANOCOMP Network
Program under Contract No. HPRN-CT-2000-00037 is gratefully acknowledged. Furthermore, Professor V. Altsta?dt
is kindly acknowledged for providing equipment for DSC. | en |
| dc.format.extent | 5123 | en |
| dc.format.extent | 5125 | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | American Institute of Physics | en |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Applied Physics Letters; | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | 81; | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | 27; | |
| dc.rights | Y | en |
| dc.subject | Physics | en |
| dc.subject | multiwalled carbon nanotubes | en |
| dc.title | Morphological and mechanical properties of carbon-nanotube-reinforced semicrystalline and amorphous polymer composites | en |
| dc.type | Journal Article | en |
| dc.type.supercollection | scholarly_publications | en |
| dc.type.supercollection | refereed_publications | en |
| dc.identifier.peoplefinderurl | http://people.tcd.ie/wblau | |
| dc.identifier.peoplefinderurl | http://people.tcd.ie/colemaj | |
| dc.identifier.rssinternalid | 26163 | |
| dc.identifier.rssuri | http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1533118 | en |
| dc.contributor.sponsor | European Union (EU) | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2262/40262 | |
