New Forms of Carbon

✍ Scribed by Aneeya Kumar Samantara, Satyajit Ratha

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 276
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This new book provides a detailed overview of some of the fundamental aspects of nanocarbons and their allotropic forms, their preparation techniques, and their applications in several fields of interest. New forms of carbon have the potential to revolutionize many aspects of research, including drug delivery, catalysis, energy conversion and storage, high-strength physics, structural engineering, and more. This volume covers the recent literature on carbon with emphasis on the emerging carbon-based materials developed to date, studies of their properties, and possible prototypes fabricated for practical applications. It covers myriad carbon-based nanomaterials of distinctive features and their application in various fields. A detailed overview of the fundamental aspects of nanocarbons and their allotropic forms, their preparation techniques, and their applications. It covers the recent literature on carbon with emphasis on the emerging carbon-based materials developed, studies of their properties, and possible prototype fabricated for practical applications.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
About the Editors
Table of Contents
Contributors
Abbreviations
Preface
Summary
1. Graphene: A New Form of Carbon for Future Sustainability
2. Carbon Derived from Biowastes for Supercapacitors: Synthesis to Applications
3. Effect of Doping on the Electronic and Physicochemical Properties of the Atomic Carbon Clusters: A Theoretical Perspective
4. Fullerenes: Synthesis and Applications
5. Biochar: An Advanced Carbon Material for Mitigation of Environmental Pollution
6. Preparation and Properties of Activated Carbon
7. Carbon Nanotubes: A New Dimension in Human Healthcare Applications
8. Mechanistic Insight into the Tuneable Electronic Properties of Chemically Functionalized Graphene Quantum Dots
9. Carborane Clusters for Promoting Medicinal Applications
Index