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Morphological and mechanical properties of carbon-nanotube-reinforced semicrystalline and amorphous polymer composites
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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.
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- Authors
- Cadek, M., Coleman, J. N., Barron, V., Hedicke, K., & Blau, W. J.
- Venue
- Applied Physics Letters
- Publisher
- AIP Publishing
- Published
- 2002-12-30
- Volume
- 81
- Issue
- 27
- Pages
- 5123-5125
- ISSN
- 0003-6951 (ISSN-L)
- 1077-3118
- OpenAlex
- W2091543764
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- References
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- FWCI
- 15.21
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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