Super resilience of a compacted mixture of natural graphite and agglomerated carbon nanotubes under cyclic compression

作者:Wei, Tong; Wang, Kai; Fan, Zhuangjun*; Yan, Jun; Qian, Weizhong; Wei, Fei
来源:Carbon, 2010, 48(1): 309-312.
DOI:10.1016/j.carbon.2009.09.045

摘要

We have prepared and evaluated the performance of natural graphite (NG)/agglomerated carbon nanotubes (ACNTs) composite materials for future mechanical dampening devices. The mechanical performance of a compressed mixture of NG and ACNTs was examined over the pressure range of 30-300 MPa. NG-ACNT composite materials showed improved performance over the ACNT materials alone. Nanocomposites containing 5% NG mixed with ACNTs had an expansion ratio of 2.