Carbon nanotubes with temperature-invariant viscoelasticity from -196 degrees to 1000 degrees C |
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| Authors: | Xu Ming Futaba Don N Yamada Takeo Yumura Motoo Hata Kenji |
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| Institution: | Technology Research Association for Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes (TASC) and Nanotube Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, 305-8565, Japan. |
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| Abstract: | Viscoelasticity describes the ability of a material to possess both elasticity and viscosity. Viscoelastic materials, such as rubbers, possess a limited operational temperature range (for example, for silicone rubber it is -55° to 300°C), above which the material breaks down and below which the material undergoes a glass transition and hardens. We created a viscoelastic material composed from a random network of long interconnected carbon nanotubes that exhibited an operational temperature range from -196° to 1000°C. The storage and loss moduli, frequency stability, reversible deformation level, and fatigue resistance were invariant from -140° to 600°C. We interpret that the thermal stability stems from energy dissipation through the zipping and unzipping of carbon nanotubes at contacts. |
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