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PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 12, Issue 17, Pages 4407-4417Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/b922906j
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG [SPP 1369]
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We present experimental and theoretical studies on the infiltration of polymers ( polystyrene ( PS), polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA)) into the free interstices of 3D aligned carbon nanotube arrays. The 3D aligned CNT structures were prepared by a template assisted non catalytic CVD approach. The infiltrated CNT/polymer composites were characterized by microscopic techniques such as infra-red and Raman spectroscopy. Small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) has been employed to study the structural evolution and polymer confinement after the polymers are infiltrated in the aligned arrays of CNTs. A theoretical model has been used to understand and predict possible confinement effects of these polymers within the aligned CNT arrays, using self-consistent field theory (SCFT) and Monte-Carlo simulations based on the bond-fluctuation model.
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