✦ LIBER ✦
Synthesis of sea urchin-like particles of carbon nanotubes directly grown on stainless steel cores and their effect on the mechanical properties of polymer composites
✍ Scribed by Xuan Hoa Nguyen; Yang Bok Lee; Choong Hyun Lee; Dae-Soon Lim
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 979 KB
- Volume
- 48
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-6223
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✦ Synopsis
Multi-walled carbon nanotubes (CNTs) were directly grown on spherical stainless steel (SS) particles of average diameter of 100 nm to produce a structure that resembled sea urchins.
Micro-structural observations by scanning and transmission electron microscopy revealed that the CNTs were densely deposited and adhered well to the SS particles. Using these particles as a filler in polymer composites produced a high tensile strength as results of their effective dispersion and good interfacial bonding to the polymer matrix.