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Mechanical Behavior of Carbon Nanotube-Reinforced Polymer Composites

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Nanocomposite is a multiphase solid material where one of the phases has one, two or three dimensions of less than 100 nm, or structures having nano-scale repeat distances between the different phases that make up the material. In the broadest sense this definition can include porous media, colloids, gels and copolymers, but is more usually taken to mean the solid combination of a bulk matrix and nano-dimensional phase(s) differing in properties due to dissimilarities in structure and chemistry. The mechanical, electrical, thermal, optical, electrochemical, catalytic properties of the nanocomposite will differ markedly from that of the component materials [1–3].

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  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Abuja, Abuja, Nigeria

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Awang, M., Mohammadpour, E., Muhammad, I.D. (2016). Mechanical Behavior of Carbon Nanotube-Reinforced Polymer Composites. In: Finite Element Modeling of Nanotube Structures. Engineering Materials. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03197-2_10

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