Carbon nanotube enhanced aerospace composite materials : a new generation of multifunctional hybrid structural composites

Preface.- Carbon Nanotubes for novel hybrid structural composites with enhanced damage tolerance and self-sensing/actuating abilities, by A. S. Paipetis and V. Kostopoulos.- On the use of electrical conductivity for the assessment of damage in Carbon nanotubes enhanced aerospace composites, by Antonios I. Vavouliotis and Vassilis Kostopoulos.- Carbon nanotube structures with sensing and actuating capabilities, by C. Jaillet, N.D. Alexopoulos, P. Poulin.- Mechanical dispersion methods for carbon nanotubes in aerospace composite matrix systems, by Sergiy Grishchuk, Ralf Schledjewski.- Chemical Functionalization of Carbon Nanotubes for dispersion in epoxy matrices, by Dimitrios J. Giliopoulos, Kostas S. Triantafyllidis and Dimitrios Gournis.- Stress Induced Changes in the Raman Spectrum of Carbon Nanostructures and their Composites, by A. S. Paipetis.- Mechanical and Electrical Response Models of Carbon Nanotubes, by T C Theodosiou and D A Saravanos.- Improved Damage Tolerance Properties of Aerospace Structures by the Addition of Carbon Nanotubes, by Petros Karapappas and PanayotaTsotra.- Environmental degradation of carbon nanotube hybrid aerospace composites, by Nektaria-Marianthi Barkoula.