A fractal model allowing one to theoretically estimate the shearing strength of the interfacial contact in a polymer-carbon nanotube system is proposed. It takes into account the structure of carbon nanotube surface and describes experimental data accurately enough. This makes the model promising for predicting the polymer/nanofiller contact strength. As a function of nanotube diameter and contact length, this strength showed a strong scale effect.

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聚合物/碳纳米管接触的剪切强度的理论估计：分形模型

提出了一种分形模型，可以从理论上估计聚合物-碳纳米管系统中界面接触的剪切强度。它考虑了碳纳米管表面的结构并足够准确地描述了实验数据。这使得该模型有望用于预测聚合物/纳米填料的接触强度。作为纳米管直径和接触长度的函数，这种强度表现出很强的结垢效应。