• DOI:10.1038/381678A0
Corpus ID: 4332264

Exceptionally high Young's modulus observed for individual carbon nanotubes

@article{Treacy1996ExceptionallyHY,
  title={Exceptionally high Young's modulus observed for individual carbon nanotubes},
  author={M. Treacy and T. Ebbesen and J. M. Gibson},
  journal={Nature},
  year={1996},
  volume={381},
  pages={678-680}
}

M. Treacy, T. Ebbesen, J. M. Gibson

Published 1996

Nature

CARBON nanotubes are predicted to have interesting mechanical properties—in particular, high stiffness and axial strength—as a result of their seamless cylindrical graphitic structure1–5. Their mechanical properties have so far eluded direct measurement, however, because of the very small dimensions of nanotubes. Here we estimate the Young's modulus of isolated nanotubes by measuring, in the transmission electron microscope, the amplitude of their intrinsic thermal vibrations. We find that… CONTINUE READING

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