RAMT

Authors

V.V. Kaminskii ¹ , M.A. Chumak ² , D.A. Kalganov ^1, ² , A.V. Shchegolkov ³ , D.I. Panov ¹ , M.V. Rozaeva ¹

¹ Institute of Advanced Data Transfer Systems, ITMO University, St. Petersburg, 197101, Russia

² Ioffe Institute, St. Petersburg, 19402, Russia

³ Department of Electrical Power Engineering, Tambov State Technical University, Sovetskaya St., 106/5, room 2, Tambov, 392000, Russia

10.17586/2687-0568-2024-6-2-80-88

Rev. Adv. Mater. Technol., 2024, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 80–88

Abstract

This short review summarizes mechanical interactions occurring in polymer with carbon nanotubes. The work contains a detailed discussion of methods for improving the mechanical characteristics of polymer composites with carbon nanotubes, for which both experimental and computational work in this area are presented. The paper discusses in detail such methods of improving the connection between carbon nanotubes and the polymer as functionalization (covalent and non-covalent), enhancement by embedded nanoparticles and structural modification of the matrix. The review focuses on the molecular dynamics method as one of the promising methods for studying mechanical interactions in polymer composites with carbon nanotubes.

Keywords

Nanocomposites; Carbon nanotubes; Polymers; CNT

Foundings

Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation: 075-15-2021-1349

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Mechanical Interactions in Polymeric Materials with Carbon Nanotubes: a Brief Review

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