Archivio Istituzionale della RicercaIn this paper, we evaluate the strength, toughness and stiffness of super-nanotubes, just recently discovered, and of the related fibre-reinforced composites. The prediction of huge toughening mechanisms suggests the feasibility of ‘super-composites’. We found the optimum for super-nanotubes with a number of ∼2 hierarchal levels, similar to the optimization done by Nature in nacre.
Mimicking nacre with super-nanotubes for producing optimized super-composites / Pugno, Nicola. - In: NANOTECHNOLOGY. - ISSN 0957-4484. - 17:21(2006), pp. 5480-5484. [10.1088/0957-4484/17/21/031]
Mimicking nacre with super-nanotubes for producing optimized super-composites
PUGNO, Nicola
2006
Abstract
In this paper, we evaluate the strength, toughness and stiffness of super-nanotubes, just recently discovered, and of the related fibre-reinforced composites. The prediction of huge toughening mechanisms suggests the feasibility of ‘super-composites’. We found the optimum for super-nanotubes with a number of ∼2 hierarchal levels, similar to the optimization done by Nature in nacre.
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