Review on PCL, PBS, and PCL/PBS blends containing carbon nanotubes

Effect of annealing on the mechanical properties of PLA/PCL and PLA/PCL/LTI polymer blends.

The effects of annealing on the mechanical properties of polymer blends of poly(lactic acid) (PLA) and poly(ε-caprolactone) (PCL) were investigated. The bending strength and modulus of PLA/PCL tend to increase due to crystallization of the PLA phase by annealing. The mode I fracture energy, J(in), of PLA/PCL decreases dramatically due to the suppression of the ductile deformation of the spheric...

Carbon Nanotubes Literature Review

This annotated bibliography has been created to summarize a collection of articles in the area of carbon nanotubes. The focus of this work has been on the mechanical properties of carbon nanotubes and their use in polymer composites; however, sections on fabrication, atomistic models, electrical properties, and other phenomena have been included for completeness. The last section contains misce...

Chapter 1: Literature Review on Carbon Nanotubes

Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs) are believed to be the ultimate nanomaterial, due to their exceptional thermal conductivity, electronic properties, and mechanical strength. Discovered by Iijima Sukumo, an electron microscopist from the NEC laboratory in Japan in 1991, they have been capturing the imagination of physicists as well as chemists for the last thirteen years. They are the fifth existing form...

Nitrogen-Containing Carbon Nanotubes - A Theoretical Approach

MATERIALS CHEMISTRY COMMUNICATION Nitrogen-containing carbon nanotubes

could be prepared by employing appropriate precursor molecules. Nanotubes containing both boron and nitrogen have Carbon nanotubes containing small amounts of nitrogen are been grown in the electric arc discharge between graphite produced by the pyrolysis of aza-aromatics such as pyridine, cathodes and graphite anodes filled with boron in a nitrogen methylpyrimidine and triazine over cobalt nan...