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Journal of Minerals Materials Characterization Engineering, Vol. 4, No.1, pp 31-46, 2005 Printed in the USA. All rights reserved Carbon Nanotube Based Composites- A Review Rupesh Khare*, Suryasarathi Bose Mumbai University Institute of Chemical Technology (UICT) * rupesh_uict@ *author to whom all the correspondence should be addressed Abstract: Carbon nanofibers and nanotubes are promising to revolutionise several fields in material science and are a major component of nanotechnology. Further market development will depend on material availability at reasonable prices. Nanotubes have a wide range of unexplored potential applications in various technological areas such as aerospace, energy, automobile, medicine, or chemical industry, in which they can be used as gas adsorbents, templates, actuators, composite reinforcements, catalyst supports, probes, chemical sensors, nanopipes, nano-reactors etc. In this paper, recent research on carbon nanotube composites are reviewed. The interfacial bonding properties, mechanical performance, electrical percolation of nanotube/polymer and ceramic are also reviewed. INTRODUCTION Carbon nanotube Elemental carbon in the sp2 hybridization can form a variety1 of amazing structures. Apart from the well-known graphite, carbon can build closed and open cages with arrangement. honeycomb The atomic first such structure to be discovered was the C60 molecule by Kroto2 et al. Although various carbon cages were studied, it was only in 1991, when Iijima3 observed for the first time tubular carbon structures. The nanotubes consisted of up to several tens of graphitic shells (so- called multi-walled carbon nanotubes adjacent shell separation of ～0.34 (MWNT)) with Figure 1: Single wall carbon nanotubes nm, diameters of ～1 nm and high length/diameter ratio. Two years later, Iijima and Ichihashi4 and B