Abstract
The interfacial shear strength in single-wall nanotube–polymer composites is calculated using a traditional force balance approach, modified for a hollow tube, and the effect of varying some of the model parameters is examined and discussed. It is shown that high values of the interfacial shear strength (compared to those in current advanced fiber-based polymer composites) are in principle attainable. Defects in the hexagonal structure of a nanotube, which technically is a `perfect' material, are expected to strongly reduce its strength and the model predicts that, as a consequence, a large variability should be experimentally observed in either the interfacial strength or the critical length of apparently identical nanotubes.
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