Electrical and mechanical properties of nanocomposite materials containing electrically dispersed MWCNTs

Pristine carbon nanotubes (CNTs) aggregate severely due to the strong van der Waals binding energies and the dispersibility of CNTs in solvents is extremely poor. This is a formidable hurdle for fabrication of advanced CNT composite materials. The purpose of this research is to realize optimal dispersion of CNTs in organic solvents and to obtain a better understanding of electrical and mechanical properties in polymeric and elastomeric CNT composite materials. In this paper, we report the results obtained by the experiments.