Ultrananocrystalline Diamond: Synthesis, Properties, and Applications

✍ Scribed by Olga A. Shenderova, Dieter M. Gruen

• Publisher: William Andrew
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 621
• Series: Materials Science and Process Technology Series
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Ultrananocrystalline Diamond: Syntheses, Properties, and Applications is a unique practical reference handbook that brings together the basic science of nanoscale carbon structures, particularly its diamond phase, with detailed information on nanodiamond synthesis, properties, and applications. Here you will learn about UNCD in its two forms, as a dispersed powder made by detonation techniques and as a chemical vapor deposited film. You will also learn about the superior mechanical, tribological, transport, electrochemical, and electron emission properties of UNCD for a wide range of applications including MEMS, NEMS, surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices, electrochemical sensors, coatings for field emission arrays, photonic and RF switching, biosensors, and neural prostheses, and more. This ?Everything about Ultra-nanocrystalline Diamond? book with 16 chapters is written by leading experts worldwide. It is for everyone who researches carbon nanostructures, everyone who produces them, everyone who characterizes them, and everyone who builds devices using them.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Ultrananocrystalline Diamond......Page 2
ISBN-13: 9780815515241......Page 3
Materials Science and Process Technology Series......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 16
Preface......Page 20
PART 1 OVERVIEW: NATURALLY OCCURRING UNCD AND ITS LABORATORY SYNTHESIS......Page 22
1 Carbon Family at the Nanoscale......Page 24
2 Extraterrestrial Nanodiamonds in the Cosmos......Page 44
3 Types of Nanocrystalline Diamond......Page 100
PART 2 STABILITY OF NANODIAMOND......Page 136
4 Stability of Nanodiamond......Page 138
PART 3 UNCD FILMS AND RELATED MATERIALS......Page 176
5 Electron Transport and the Potential of Ultrananocrystalline Diamond as a Thermoelectric Material......Page 178
6 Plasma-Assisted Synthesis: Plasma Experimental Diagnostics and Modeling......Page 206
7 Nanodiamond Films Deposited from Energetic Species: Material Characterization and Mechanism of Formation......Page 250
8 Theoretical Studies of UNCD Synthesis and Properties......Page 294
9 Mechanical Properties of Undoped and Doped Ultrananocrystalline Diamond: Elasticity, Strength,and Toughness......Page 324
PART 4 UNCD PARTICLES OF DETONATION ORIGIN......Page 354
10 On the Discovery of Detonation Nanodiamond......Page 356
11 Synthesis and Post-Synthesis Treatment of Detonation Nanodiamonds......Page 368
12 Characterization and Physical Properties of UNCD Particles......Page 400
13 Diamond Phase Transitions at Nanoscale......Page 426
14 Applications of Detonation Nanodiamond......Page 498
15 Nanodiamond: Designing the Bio-Platform......Page 550
16 History of Russian Patents on Detonation Nanodiamonds......Page 580
Index......Page 610