Published November 25, 2005 | Version v1
Journal article

Direct Observation of Nanocrystallite Buckling in Carbon Fibers under Bending Load

  • 1. Institute of Materials Physics, University of Vienna, Boltzmanngasse 5, A-1090 Vienna (Austria)
  • 2. Department of Biomaterials, Max-Planck-Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, 14424 Potsdam (Germany)
  • 3. European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, 6 Rue Jules Horowitz, B.P. 220, F-38043 Grenoble Cedex 9 (France)

Description

Single carbon fibers are deformed in bending by forming loops with varying radius. Position-resolved x-ray diffraction patterns from the bent fibers are collected from the tension to the compression region with a synchrotron radiation nanobeam of 100 nm size from a waveguide structure. A strain redistribution with a shift of the neutral axis is observed. A significant increase of the misorientation of the graphene sheets in the compression region shows that intense buckling of the nanosized carbon crystallites is the physical origin of different tensile and compressive properties

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Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
Journal Volume
95
Journal Issue
22
Journal Page Range
p. 225501-225501.4
ISSN
0031-9007
CODEN
PRLTAO

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(c) 2005 The American Physical Society