Tensile Strengths (IMAGE)

Japan Science and Technology Agency

Tensile Strengths

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Empirical contour map of nanotube tensile strengths. Each pair of integers (n,m) on a hexagon identifies the nanotube structure. Nanotube structures are roughly classified as three groups (right schematics). The left image shows the moment of nanotube fracture during the tensile test.?

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Nagoya University

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