This review paper aims to highlight the most important and novel studies of the mechanical behavior and applications of carbon nanotubes reinforced composites. The carbon nanotubes play a vital role due to their better structural and functional properties and it has a broad range of application when it is reinforced with metal and polymer matrix composites. It is used as a potential candidate to be incorporated into marine current turbines and it also aims to act as a starting point to connect the two research areas (marine renewable energy and nanotechnology). Notably, the functionalized derivatives of carbon nanotubes and graphene with a high surface area and adsorption sites are proposed to remove heavy metals via adsorption, addressing the pressing pollution of heavy metal. The carbon nanotubes along with the graphene are used in the nano resonator sensors. This paper focuses the applications of carbon nanotubes reinforced metal and polymer matrix composites.
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