Advances in the use of poly (methyl methacrylate)(PMMA) have opened up a wide range of
applications in the field of nanotechnology. The knowledge of the properties of PMMA has …

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs), the one-dimensional allotropes of carbon, have attracted
noteworthy research interest since their discovery in 1991 owing to their large aspect ratio …

Carbon nanotubes have long been recognized as the stiffest and strongest man-made
material known to date. In addition, their high electrical conductivity has roused interest in …

Carbon-based nanomaterials such as carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have become the most
promising materials in biomedical, electronic and aerospace applications. When added to …

The unidirectional growth of materials to form nanowires or nanotubes has attracted
enormous interest in recent years. Within the different classes of tubes made of organic or …

Polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) is a common semicrystalline fluoropolymer polymer. Due to
its excellent piezoelectric properties, thermal stability, and mechanical strength, it has …

In the past decades, graphene oxide (GO) exhibited great potential for enhancing the
performance of polymer composites. Homogeneous dispersion of GO sheets in the polymer …

Continuous macroscopic aligned polyacrylonitrile (PAN) composite nanofiber sheets
embedded with highly aligned PAN-grafted multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) have …

Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) with high covalent bonding density of polymer
layers have been prepared by a “grafting to” approach, where the benzyl chloride groups of …

A new method to graft a large number of long polymer chains or small functional molecules
onto multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) indirectly is reported. First, MWNTs were …