Nanotube nanocomposites

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Polymer Nanotube Nanocomposites Synthesis, Properties, and Applications edited by Vikas Mittal. Forthcoming 2010. ISBN 978-0-470-62592-7. 

Kashiwagi, T., Grulke, E., Hilding, J., Groth, K., Harris, R., Butler, K., Shields, J., Kharchenko, S., and Douglas, J. Thermal and flammability properties of polypropylene/carbon nanotube nanocomposites, Polymer (2004), 45, 4227 1239. 

Keywords nanotubes, nanocomposites, electrical, mechanical, vapor deposition, laser, arc. 

This review work was carried out at Institute of Chemical and Bioengineering, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. V. Mittal (ed.) Polymer Nanotube Nanocomposites, (1-14) Scrivener Publishing LLC... 

Nanotube nanocomposites with a large number of polymer matrices have been reported in the recent years. The composites were synthesized in order to enhance mechanical, thermal and electrical properties of the conventional polymers so as to expand their spectrum of applications. Different synthesis route have also been developed in order to achieve nanocomposites. The generated morphology in the composites and the resulting composite properties were reported to be affected by the nature of the polymer, nature of the nanotube modification, synthesis process, amount of the inorganic filler etc. The following paragraphs review the nanocomposites structures and properties reported in a few of these reports and also stress upon the future potential of nanotube nanocomposites. 

Figure 2.8. Stress-strain curves of nanotube nanocomposites (a) containing 0.2 wt % of different types of functionalized CNTs and (b) containing different concentration of fFWNTs. Reproduced from reference 4 with permission from American Chemical Society.

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