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CARBON NANOTUBES
– POLYMER
NANOCOMPOSITES
Edited by
Siva Yellampalli
 Carbon Nanotubes – Polymer Nanocomposites
Edited by Siva Yellampalli
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Contents
Preface IX
Part 1
Fabrication and Property Analysis of Carbon Nanotubes
1
Chapter 1
Growth of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes
by RF-DC Plasma Chemical Vapor Deposition 3
Yasuaki Hayashi, Hideto Sawada and Hideyuki Takagi
Chapter 2
Carbon Nanotubes Engineering
Assisted by Natural Biopolymers 15
Luhua Lu, Ying Hu, Chunrui Chang and Wei Chen
Chapter 3
Elastic Properties of Carbon Nanotubes
35
Qiang Han and Hao Xin
Part 2
Preparation and Characterization
of Polymer Composites with CNTs
63
Chapter 4
Polymer/Carbon Nanotube Nanocomposites
65
Veena Choudhary and Anju Gupta
Chapter 5
Functionalization of Carbon Nanotubes
91
In-Yup Jeon, Dong Wook Chang,
Nanjundan Ashok Kumar and Jong-Beom Baek
Chapter 6
Preparation and Applicability of Vinyl
Alcohol Group Containing Polymer/MWNT
Nanocomposite Using a Simple Saponification Method
111
Eun-Ju Lee, Jin-San Yoon, Mal-Nam Kim and Eun-Soo Park
Chapter 7
Reinforcement Effects of CNTs
for Polymer-Based Nanocomposites
129
Yuan Li, Yaolu Liu and Ning Hu
Chapter 8
Characterization of Nanotube-
Reinforced Polymer Composites 155
Wenjie Wang and N. Sanjeeva Murthy
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