ADVANCES IN POLYMER/CARBON NANOTUBES COMPOSITES

Carbon nanotubes offer tremendous opportunities for the development of fundamentally new materials systems due to their remarkable physical and mechanical properties. The combination of carbon nanotubes with polymers offers an attractive route not only to reinforce polymer but also to introduce new electronic and optical properties, so polymer/carbon nanotubes composites have attracted much interest recently. The advance in polymer/carbon nanotubes composites was reviewed. The combination way between polymer and carbon nanotubes, the preparation techniques as well as some properties including mechanical, electrical and optical properties of polymer/carbon nanotubes composites were mainly introduced.