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Behaviours of embedded carbon nanotubes during film cracking

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Published 28 March 2003 • Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd
, , Citation P C P Watts and W K Hsu 2003 Nanotechnology 14 L7 DOI 10.1088/0957-4484/14/5/101

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  1. Received 9 January 2003
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Abstract

Embedded carbon nanotubes delay polymer film cracking via tube stretching and pulling out. Tube breaking is not observed in our experiments, which contradicts a previous report.

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