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SUBMITTER: Hyon J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7967058 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hyon Jinho J Lawal Olawale O Thevamaran Ramathasan R Song Ye Eun YE Thomas Edwin L EL
Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) 20210129 6
Thin layered mats comprised of an interconnected meandering network of multiwall carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) are subjected to a hypersonic micro-projectile impact test. The mat morphology is highly compliant and while this leads to rather modest quasi-static mechanical properties, at the extreme strain rates and large strains resulting from ballistic impact, the MWCNT structure has the ability to reconfigure resulting in extraordinary kinetic energy (KE) absorption. The KE of the projectile is diss ...[more]