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134 nature materials | VOL 4 | FEBRUARY 2005 | www.nature.com/naturematerials
Viscoelasticity in carbon nanotube
composites
JONGHWAN SUHR1
,NIKHIL KORATKAR1
*,PAWEL KEBLINSKI2
AND PULICKEL AJAYAN2
1
Department of Mechanical,Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering, 2
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,Troy, New York 12180, USA
*e-mail: koratn@rpi.edu
Published online: 9 January 2005; doi:10.1038/nmat1293
P
olymer composites reinforced by carbon nanotubes have
been extensively researched1­4
for their strength and stiffness
properties. Unless the interface is carefully engineered,
poor load transfer between nanotubes (in bundles) and between
nanotubes and surrounding polymer chains may result in

Source: Ajayan, Pulickel M. - Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Rice University

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