Hierarchical self-entangled carbon nanotube tube networks
- Submitting institution
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Queen Mary University of London
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 611
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1038/s41467-017-01324-7
- Title of journal
- Nature Communications
- Article number
- ARTN 1215
- First page
- 1215
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 1
- ISSN
- 2041-1723
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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9
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- We demonstrate a simple strategy for the fabrication of open porous 3D self-organized double-hierarchical carbon nanotube tube structures with properties advantageous to those existing so far. Even though no additional crosslinking exists between the individual nanotubes, a high reinforcement effect in compression and tensile loading is achieved by the formation of self-entangled carbon nanotube (CNT) networks in all three dimensions. As demonstrated in our follow-up publications, this strategy can be transferred to other 3D structure consisting of other low-dimensional nanomaterials, such as Mxenes and Graphene, the latter being employed in one of the Spearhead projects of the Graphene Flagship.
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- Non-English
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