Carbon Nanotubes Synthesis, Structure, Properties, and Applications [Paperback]

After a short introduction and a brief review of the relation between carbon nanotubes, graphite and other forms of carbon, the synthesis techniques and growth mechanisms for carbon nanotubes are described. This is followed by reviews on nanotube electronic structure, electrical, optical, and mechanical properties, nanotube imaging and spectroscopy, and nanotube applications.

This book gives a comprehensive review of the present status of research in this fast moving field by researchers actively contributing to the advances. After a short introduction and a brief review of the relation between carbon nanotubes, graphite and other forms of carbon, the synthesis techniques and growth mechanisms for carbon nanotubes are described. This is followed by reviews on nanotube electronic structure, electrical, optical, and mechanical properties, nanotube imaging and spectroscopy, and nanotube applications.to Carbon Materials Research.- Relation of Carbon Nanotubes to Other Carbon Materials.- Nanotube Growth and Characterization.- Growth Mechanisms of Carbon Nanotubes.- Nanotubes from Inorganic Materials.- Electronic Properties, Junctions, and Defects of Carbon Nanotubes.- Electrical Transport Through Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes.- Scanning Probe Microscopy Studies of Carbon Nanotubes.- Optical Properties and Raman Spectroscopy of Carbon Nanotubes.- Electron Spectroscopy Studies of Carbon Nanotubes.- Phonons and Thermal Properties of Carbon Nanotubes.- Mechanical Properties of Carbon Nanotubes.- Physical Properties of Multi-wall Nanotubes.- Applications of Carbon Nanotubes.

From the reviews:

Various aspects of nanotubes are ... treated in fourteen chapters, starting with a survey of historical and conceptual aspects by M. S. Dresselhaus and Ph. Avouris. & This volume gives a comprehensive, and at the same time representative, survey of the present status of research in this fast-moving field. The wide spectrum of key theoretical anl3Ü