Journal:SMALL
Key Words:carbon nanotubes; conductivity; functionalization; mechanical properties; nanocomposites
Abstract:Since their discovery in 1991, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have been considered as the next-generation reinforcement materials to potentially replace conventional carbon fibers for producing super-high-performance lightweight composites. Herein, it is reported that sheets of millimeter-long multi-walled CNTs with stretch alignment and epoxidation functionalization reinforce bismaleimide resin, which results in composites with an unprecedentedly high tensile strength of 3081 MPa and modulus of 350 GPa, well exceeding those of state-of-the-art unidirectional carbon-fiber-reinforced composites...
First Author:Cheng, Qunfeng
Indexed by:Unit Twenty Basic Research
Correspondence Author:Liang, Zhiyong
Document Type:J
Translation or Not:no
Date of Publication:2010-03-22