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Carbon nanotube dry adhesives with temperature-enhanced adhesion over a large temperature range

Overview of attention for article published in Nature Communications, November 2016
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Title
Carbon nanotube dry adhesives with temperature-enhanced adhesion over a large temperature range
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Nature Communications, November 2016
DOI 10.1038/ncomms13450
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Ming Xu, Feng Du, Sabyasachi Ganguli, Ajit Roy, Liming Dai

Abstract

Conventional adhesives show a decrease in the adhesion force with increasing temperature due to thermally induced viscoelastic thinning and/or structural decomposition. Here, we report the counter-intuitive behaviour of carbon nanotube (CNT) dry adhesives that show a temperature-enhanced adhesion strength by over six-fold up to 143 N cm(-2) (4 mm × 4 mm), among the strongest pure CNT dry adhesives, over a temperature range from -196 to 1,000 °C. This unusual adhesion behaviour leads to temperature-enhanced electrical and thermal transports, enabling the CNT dry adhesive for efficient electrical and thermal management when being used as a conductive double-sided sticky tape. With its intrinsic thermal stability, our CNT adhesive sustains many temperature transition cycles over a wide operation temperature range. We discover that a 'nano-interlock' adhesion mechanism is responsible for the adhesion behaviour, which could be applied to the development of various dry CNT adhesives with novel features.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 94 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 24 26%
Student > Master 14 15%
Student > Bachelor 13 14%
Researcher 13 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 6%
Other 11 12%
Unknown 13 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Engineering 22 23%
Materials Science 21 22%
Chemistry 12 13%
Chemical Engineering 5 5%
Physics and Astronomy 5 5%
Other 7 7%
Unknown 22 23%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 47. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 November 2016.
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#751,909
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of 867 outputs
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