
Understanding Mechanical Weak point in Twisted Carbon Nanotube Yarns
Researchers on the Tokyo Institute of Know-how have recognized that the poor mechanical efficiency of carbon nanotube (CNT) bundles and yarns is probably going as a result of localized rearrangements of the CNTs throughout twisting. By way of molecular dynamics simulations, they found that twisting CNT bundles creates disclination traces, which negatively influence the general…