On Experimental Facilities to Assist Modeling of Elastic Behavior of Carbon Nanotube Polymer Composites : Review and Analysis of Literature

Abstract

This paper gives an account of the importance of interfacial properties affecting the elastic behavior of polymer-CNT nanocomposites and the experimental facilities that one needed to assess the properties. These experimentally determined properties are required to develop analytical models to predict realistic elastic behavior of polymer-CNT nanocomposites. lie the areas of reliability and mechanics in micro- and nano-electronics and packaging, multi-scale material modeling and experiments for integrated small scale structures.