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Effective Young's modulus of carbon nanofiber array

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2011

Yi Zhang ,
Ephraim Suhir  and
Yuan Xu
Yi Zhang
Affiliation:
Nanoconduction Inc., Sunnyvale, California 94089; and University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064
Ephraim Suhir*
Affiliation:
Nanoconduction Inc., Sunnyvale, California 94089; and University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064
Yuan Xu
Affiliation:
Nanoconduction Inc., Sunnyvale, California 94089; and University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064
*
a) Address all correspondence to this author. e-mail: suhire@aol.com
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Abstract

We developed a methodology for the evaluation of the effective Young's modulus (EYM) of the vertically aligned carbon nanofibers array (CNFA). The carbon nanofibers array is treated in this study as a continuous structural element, and, for this reason, the determined EYM might be appreciably different (actually, lower) than the Young's modulus (YM) of the material of an individual carbon nanotube or a nanofiber. The developed methodology is based on the application of a compressive load onto the carbon nanofibers array, so that each individual carbon nanofiber experiences axial compression and is expected to buckle under the compressive load. The relationship between the applied compressive stress and the induced displacement of the carbon nanofiber array is measured using a table version of an Instron tester. It has been found that the carbon nanofiber array exhibits nonlinear behavior and the EYM increases with an increase in the compressive load. The largest measured EYM of the carbon nanofiber array turned out to be about 90 GPa. It has been found also that the fragmentary pieces of lateral graphitic layer in the carbon nanofiber array resulted in substantial worsening of the quality of the carbon nanofibers. This might be one of the possible reasons why the measured EYM turned out to be much lower than the theoretical predictions reported in the literature. The measured EYM is also much lower than the reported in the literature atomic force microscopy (AFM)-based data for the EYM for multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) that possess uniform and straight graphitic wall structure. Our transmission electron microscope (TEM) observations have revealed indeed poor structural qualities of the plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) grown CNFs.

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NanostructureScanning electron microscopy (SEM)Stress/strain relationship
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Journal of Materials Research , Volume 21 , Issue 11 , November 2006 , pp. 2948 - 2954
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2006

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