@article{brenner_shenderova_areshkin_schall_frankland_2002, title={Atomic modeling of carbon-based nanostructures as a tool for developing new materials and technologies}, volume={3}, number={5}, journal={Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences : CMES}, author={Brenner, D. W. and Shenderova, O. A. and Areshkin, D. A. and Schall, J. D. and Frankland, S. J. V.}, year={2002}, pages={643–673} } @misc{frankland_caglar_brenner_griebel_2002, title={Molecular simulation of the influence of chemical cross-links on the shear strength of carbon nanotube-polymer interfaces}, volume={106}, ISSN={["1520-5207"]}, DOI={10.1021/jp015591+}, abstractNote={The influence of chemical cross-links between a single-walled fullerene nanotube and a polymer matrix on the matrix−nanotube shear strength has been studied using molecular dynamics simulations. A (10,10) nanotube embedded in either a crystalline or amorphous polyethylene matrix is used as a model for a nonbonded interface (in the absence of cross-links). The simulations predict that shear strengths and critical lengths required for load transfer can be enhanced and decreased, respectively, by over an order of magnitude with the formation of cross-links involving less than 1% of the nanotube carbon atoms. At this level of chemical functionalization, calculations also predict that there is a negligible change in tensile modulus for a (10,10) nanotube.}, number={12}, journal={JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B}, author={Frankland, SJV and Caglar, A and Brenner, DW and Griebel, M}, year={2002}, month={Mar}, pages={3046–3048} }