Real-time imaging of complex nanoscale mechanical responses of carbon nanotubes in highly-compressible porous monoliths

Raymond Whitby, T. Fukuda, T. Maekawa, Sergey Mikhalovsky, Andrew Cundy

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Abstract

A facile and rapid assembly of powdered carbon nanotubes (CNTs) into compressible, porous, macroscale monoliths is reported. Despite a Poisson's ratio just above zero, we found that the sample under compression inside a scanning electron microscope (SEM) revealed CNT regions behaving in auxetic and vortex-like rotational modes as well as standard collapse responses. This method is crucial in understanding the macroscale behaviour based on the accumulation of nanoscale responses to an applied force.
Original languageEnglish
JournalNanotechnology
Volume21
Issue number7
Publication statusPublished - 2010

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