Carbon Nanotubes and Related Structures: Synthesis, Characterization, Functionalization, and Applications

• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 549
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Written by the most prominent experts and pioneers in the field, this ready reference combines fundamental research, recent breakthroughs and real-life applications in one well-organized treatise.
As such, both newcomers and established researchers will find here a wide range of current methods for producing and characterizing carbon nanotubes using imaging as well as spectroscopic techniques. One major part of this thorough overview is devoted to the controlled chemical functionalization of carbon nanotubes, covering intriguing applications in photovoltaics, organic electronics and materials design. The latest research on novel carbon-derived structures, such as graphene, nanoonions and carbon pea pods, round off the book.

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Chapter 1 Carbon Nanotubes and Related Structures: Production and Formation (pages 1–21): Mark H. Rummeli, Paola Ayala and Thomas Pichler
Chapter 2 Theory of Electronic and Optical Properties of DNA–SWNT Hybrids (pages 23–51): Slava V. Rotkin and Stacy E. Snyder
Chapter 3 Electrochemistry (pages 53–75): Matteo Iurlo, Massimo Marcaccio and Francesco Paolucci
Chapter 4 Photophysics (pages 77–101): Tobias Hertel
Chapter 5 Noncovalent Functionalization of Carbon Nanotubes (pages 103–134): Ma Angeles Herranz and Prof. Dr. Nazario Martin
Chapter 6 Covalent Functionalization of Carbon Nanotubes (pages 135–198): Frank Hauke and Andreas Hirsch
Chapter 7 Carbon?Based Nanomaterial Applications in Biomedicine (pages 199–232): Prabhpreet Singh, Tatiana Da Ros, Kostas Kostarelos, Maurizio Prato and Alberto Bianco
Chapter 8 Ground and Excited State Charge Transfer and its Implications (pages 233–289): Vito Sgobba and Prof. Dr. Dirk M. Guldi
Chapter 9 Photovoltaic Devices based on Carbon Nanotubes and Related Structures (pages 291–303): Emmanuel Kymakis
Chapter 10 Layer?by?Layer Assembly of Multifunctional Carbon Nanotube Thin Films (pages 305–319): Bong Sup Shim and Nicholas A. Kotov
Chapter 11 Carbon Nanotubes for Catalytic Applications (pages 321–347): Eva Castillejos and Philippe Serp
Chapter 12 Carbon Nanotubes as Containers (pages 349–384): Thomas W. Chamberlain, Maria del Carmen Gimenez?Lopez and Andrei N. Khlobystov
Chapter 13 Carbon Nanohorn (pages 385–404): Masako Yudasaka and Sumio Iijima
Chapter 14 Self?Organization of Nanographenes (pages 405–453): Wojciech Pisula, Xinliang Feng and Klaus Mullen
Chapter 15 Endohedrals (pages 455–490): Lai Feng, Takeshi Akasaka and Shigeru Nagase
Chapter 16 Carbon Nanostructures: Calculations of their Energetics, Thermodynamics, and Stability (pages 491–523): Zdenek Slanina, Filip Uhlik, Shyi?Long Lee, Takeshi Akasaka and Shigeru Nagase