Recent Advances in Characterization Techniques for the Interface in Carbon Nanotube-Reinforced Polymer Nanocomposites

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(a) Morphology of the quasistatically fractured surfaces characterized by a scanning electron microscope for neat epoxy and chemically modified epoxy composites. (b) Morphology of the quasistatic fracture surface characterized by a scanning electron microscope for an epoxy-polyol hybrid nanocomposite reinforced with multiwalled carbon nanotubes, illustrating a bridging phenomenon as well as the pull-out process of multiwalled carbon nanotubes from the polymer matrix (adapted with permission from reference [217]; copyright 2014, Elsevier Ltd).

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