Journal
JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS
Volume 59, Issue 3, Pages 511-524Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmps.2011.01.004
Keywords
Carbon nanotube fibers; Self-folded nanotubes; Entanglements; Theoretical analyses; Atomistic simulations
Funding
- Army Research Office
- US Air Force Office of Scientific Research
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Carbon nanotube (CNT) fibers have shown superb mechanical properties, and have high potential to be used as reinforcements in multifunctional composites. CNT entanglements always exist in CNT fibers and play a crucial role in affecting their mechanical properties. In this study, the CNT entanglement is modeled as two connecting self-folded CNTs (SFCNTs). At large aspect ratios, a CNT is energetically favorable to be self-folded due to the van der Waals interactions between different parts of the CNT. The geometrical characteristics of the SFCNTs, such as the critical length for self-folding as well as the critical effective width and length, are investigated by using both an exact theoretical model and an approximate theoretical model. The tensile properties of the SFCNTs have been examined by using both the approximate theoretical model and atomistic simulations. Good agreements are achieved in the results of these two approaches. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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