Carbon Nanotube Composites

Carbon nanofibers and nanotubes are promising to revolutionize several fields in material science and are a major component of nanotechnology. Further market development will depend on material availability at reasonable prices. Nanotubes have a wide range of unexplored potential applications in various technological areas such as aerospace, energy, automobile, medicine, or chemical industry, in which they can be used as gas adsorbents, templates, actuators, composite reinforcements, catalyst supports, probes, chemical sensors, nanopipes, nano-reactors etc. Since the discovery of CNTs, they have been the focus of frontier research. It has opened vast areas of research which also include nanoscale reinforcements in composites in order to improve their mechanical, thermal and even electrical properties.

I read an article entitled "Carbon nanotube based composites - A review" published in Journal of Minerals & Charaterization & Engineering recently that has focused on recent research on carbon nanotube composites. The interfacial bonding properties, mechanical performance, electrical percolation of nanotube/polymer and ceramic are also reviewed.