Nature Communications (Apr 2017)

Nanomechanics of individual aerographite tetrapods

  • Raimonds Meija,
  • Stefano Signetti,
  • Arnim Schuchardt,
  • Kerstin Meurisch,
  • Daria Smazna,
  • Matthias Mecklenburg,
  • Karl Schulte,
  • Donats Erts,
  • Oleg Lupan,
  • Bodo Fiedler,
  • Yogendra Kumar Mishra,
  • Rainer Adelung,
  • Nicola M. Pugno

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14982
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Aerographite is a highly porous and lightweight carbon material obtained from hollow tubular tetrapod building units. Here, the authors present a comprehensive investigation of tetrapod deformation mechanisms which are at the core of aerographite nanomechanical properties.