Abstract The present research introduces a new configuration of thin-walled nested tube structure as possible energy absorber subjected to lateral compression. nested-tube structures were configured in system comprising four tubes arranged different ways. All the systems quasi-statically compressed direction on universal mechanical tester obtain their absorption characteristics. Two modes defor...

A generic noncovalent approach for dispersing high concentrations of individual single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNT) in organic as well as aqueous solutions of synthetic block copolymers is presented. It is suggested that a weak, long-ranged entropic repulsion among polymer-decorated tubes acts as a barrier that prevents the tubes from approaching the attractive part of the intertube potential...

A continuum model is presented to study vdW interaction on buckling analysis of multi-walled walled carbon nanotube. In previous studies, only the vdW interaction between adjacent two layers was considered and the vdW interaction between the other two layers was neglected. The results show that the vdW interaction cofficients are dependent on the change of interlayer spacing and the radii of tu...

This article investigates the collapse characteristics of thin-walled tubes with octagonal cross sections during axial crushing. The tubes’ axial crushing resistance (the relationship between crushing force and axial deformation) is described with a series of mathematical equations, which are derived applying global energy equilibrium theory. The derived axial crushing resistance is then used f...

We report the fabrication of devices in which one single-walled carbon nanotube spans a barrier between two fluid reservoirs, enabling direct electrical measurement of ion transport through the tube. A fraction of the tubes pass anomalously high ionic currents. Electrophoretic transport of small single-stranded DNA oligomers through these tubes is marked by large transient increases in ion curr...

Time-resolved THz spectroscopy (TRTS) is employed to study the photogenerated charge-carrier dynamics in transparent films of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs). Two films were investigated: a film with 94% semiconducting-type tubes (s-SWNTs) and a film with only 7% s-SWNT and 93% metal-type tubes (m-SWNTs). We conclude that charge-carriers are generated with >60% yields at low light intens...

A stainless steel grid baked by a propane±air premixed ¯ame had iron, chromium and nickel oxide deposits on the grid surface. With this grid, entangled and curved shape multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) were harvested from an ethylene±air di€usion ¯ame with yield rate of 3 mg/min. Nitrogen addition to the ¯ame was found to straighten the entangled tubes probably by lowering the ¯ame tempera...

The generation process of a double-walled carbon nanotube (DWNT) from a “peapod” was studied by classical molecular dynamics simulation. Starting from a peapod structure, defined by five C60 molecules inside a (10,10) single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT), polymerized fullerenes, a peanut-like structure and an almost nanotube-like structure were obtained under suitable conditions of temperature ...

carbon nanotube is investigated based on an elastic multi-layer shell model with van der Waals interaction taken into consideration. The multi-walled carbon nanotube is described as an individual elastic shell and the interlayer friction is negligible between the inner and outer tubes in the proposed model. And the Donnell equations of cylindrical shells are employed to describe the nonlinear b...

impact is one of the most important subjects which always have been considered in mechanical science. nature of impact is such that which makes its control a hard task. therefore it is required to adopt a safe and secure mechanism for transferring the impact to other vulnerable parts of a structure, when it is necessary. one of the best methods of absorbing impact energy is using thin-walled tu...