Carbon Nanotube Based Composites- A Review

Abstract

Carbon nanofibers and nanotubes are promising to revolutionise several fields in material science and are a major component of nanotechnology. Further market development will depend on material availability at reasonable prices. Nanotubes have a wide range of unexplored potential applications in various technological areas such as aerospace, energy, automobile, medicine, or chemical industry, in which they can be used as gas adsorbents, templates, actuators, composite reinforcements, catalyst supports, probes, chemical sensors, nanopipes, nano-reactors etc. In this paper, recent research on carbon nanotube composites are reviewed. The interfacial bonding properties, mechanical performance, electrical percolation of nanotube/polymer and ceramic are also reviewed.

Temperature dependence of electrical conductivity in double-wall and multi-wall carbon nanotube/polyester nanocomposites

“…Density of graphite was taken as 2.25 g/ cm 3 in the calculations. The nanotubes described above were used as filler for the polyester resin blend in this study.…”

“…Of all, SWCNT exhibit the simplest geometry and have the lowest diameter ranging from 0.4 nm to 3 nm [2]. CNTs have been recently dispersed in a number of thermoset and thermoplastic polymers to obtain electrically conductive multifunctional composites with enhanced or retaining mechanical properties [3][4][5][6][7][8][9]. However, CNTs tend to form agglomerates during processing due to relatively strong van der Waals attractions between the individual tubes and their huge surface area, which makes it difficult to realize the desired enhancements in final properties of the resulting nanocomposites.…”

Influence of carbon nanotube–polymeric compatibilizer masterbatches on morphological, thermal, mechanical, and tribological properties of polyethylene

“…With their unique physical and mechanical properties and high aspect ratio, carbon nanotubes are promising nanofillers for the reinforcement of polymers [1][2][3][4][5][6][7].…”

Curvature, Hybridization and Contamination of Carbon Nanostructures Analysis Using Electron Microscopy and XANES Spectroscopy

“…Novel carbon-based materials reveal a variety of structures with a great number of physical and chemical properties [1,2]. These unique ranges of properties [3] result from the reduced dimensionality, inherent to nanosystems with carbon atoms. Carbon nanostructures (fullerenes, carbon nanotubes, carbon nanofibers…), discovered during last decades, have been subject of intensive research for a wide range of applications [4][5][6][7][8] These new forms of carbon are emerging as the main target of many researchers around the world in pursuing the next nanoscale devices [9][10][11][12][13][14].…”