On nanocomposite toughness 

 -  Compos Sci Technol, DOI:10.1016/, 2007 .
<br/><br/> The structural toughness arising from conventional energy dissipation mechanisms has the potential to be much more significant in nanocomposites than in composites containing conventional micron-size fibers. This is illustrated and discussed here using nanotube pull-out as an example of such dissipation. While somewhat challenging conventional scaling arguments, this appears to concur with current experimental observations. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>A. NANOSTRUCTURES<br/>B. FIBER/MATRIX BOND<br/>B. FRACTURE TOUGHNESS<br/>B. INTERFACE