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Composites Science and Technology 70 (2010) 1980–1985 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Composites Science and Technology journal homepage: /locate/compscitech A novel approach to fabricate high volume fraction nanocomposites with long aligned carbon nanotubes Philip D. Bradford a, Xin Wang a, Haibo Zhao a, Jon-Paul Maria a, Quanxi Jia b, Y.T. Zhu a,* a Department of Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, 911 Partners Way, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA b Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Conventional micro-fiber-reinforced composites provide insight into critical structural features needed Received 9 April 2010 for obtaining maximum composite strength and stiffness: the reinforcements should be long, well Received in revised form 6 July 2010 aligned in a unidirectional orientation, and should have a high reinforcement volume fraction. It has long Accepted 21 July 2010 been a challenge for researchers to process CNT composites with such structural features. Here we report Available online 1 August 2010 a method to quickly produce macroscopic CNT composites with a high volume fraction of millimeter long, well aligned CNTs. Specifically, we use the novel method, shear pressing, to process tall, vertically Keywords: aligned CNT arrays int