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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Oct 8.
Published in final edited form as: Adv Funct Mater. 2010 Oct 8;20(19):3266–3271. doi: 10.1002/adfm.201000570

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Schematic drawing of deformation and strains generated from the absorption of ILs in the VA-CNT/Nafion (the CNTs are aligned along the x3-direction as shown in the figure) composite and neat Nafion under the same conditions. Neat Nafion exhibits larger (undesirable) strain along the thickness (x3) direction, while the VA-CNTs/Nafion nanocomposite film exhibits much smaller strain along the thickness (x3) direction due to the high elastic modulus and high volume fraction of VA-CNTs and higher strain in the (x1 and x2) directions.