March 2011
Intermediate to advanced
848 pages
27h 25m
English
H.D. Wagner, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Over the past 30 years Raman spectroscopy has transformed the field of composite micromechanics and is being successfully applied to the field of nanotube-reinforced polymers. Under the effects of stress, careful study of the Raman spectrum of carbon nanotubes provides a unique insight into various physical phenomena in nanocomposites. This chapter demonstrates the power of the Raman signature of carbon nanotubes as a detector of bulk matrix defects, the occurrence of polymer phase transitions, and the nanotubes’ own orientation change with respect to applied stress, stress profiles from Raman-insensitive fibers, and ...
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