Evaluation of Crimping as a Termination Technique for Carbon Nanotube Macro-Structures

Crimping as a termination technique is well established and studied. Traditional crimps of copper based alloys have a long history of use in electrical connections and have been expanded in recent years with specific recommendations for crimping aluminum wires. With the advent of macroscale production of carbon nanotube (CNT)networks, there is an interest to determine how traditional application of crimping can be applied to these CNT networks.Specific issues and crimp performance of CNT networks are explored in this work.