Estimating the Thermal Conductivities and Elastic Stiffness of Carbon Nanotubes as a Function of Tube Geometry

Table 2

The reported experimental data of Young’s and shear moduli of CNTs.

	Length (nm)	Diameter (nm)	Thickness (nm)	SWCNT/MWCNT	Young’s modulus (TPa)	Shear modulus (GPa)
Salvetat et al. [31]	180∼370	4.5∼20	0.34	SWCNT	0.067∼0.5	0.7∼6.5
Salvetat et al. [32]		26∼76		MWCNT	1.28±0.59
Krishnan et al. [33]	23.4∼36.8	1.12∼1.5		SWCNT	1.25 (average)	0.1
Yu et al. [34]		19∼41	0.34	SWCNT	0.32∼1.47
Yu et al. [35]	1800∼10990	13∼36		MWCNT	0.27∼0.95