title: Real-time imaging of complex nanoscale mechanical responses of carbon nanotubes in highly compressible porous monoliths.
abstract: A facile and rapid assembly of powdered carbon nanotubes (CNTs) into compressible, porous, macroscale monoliths is reported. Despite a Poisson's ratio just above zero, we found that the sample under compression inside a scanning electron microscope (SEM) revealed CNT regions behaving in auxetic and vortex-like rotational modes as well as standard collapse responses. This method is crucial in understanding the macroscale behaviour based on the accumulation of nanoscale responses to an applied force.
authors.affiliation: Brighton Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Group, PABS, University of Brighton, Lewes Road, Brighton, BN2 4GJ, UK. r.whitby@brighton.ac.uk
authors.forename: Raymond L D
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Whitby
authors.forename: Takahiro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Fukuda
authors.forename: Toru
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Maekawa
authors.forename: Sergey V
authors.initials: SV
authors.lastname: Mikhalovsky
authors.forename: Andrew B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Cundy