Carbon nanotechnology : recent developments in chemistry, physics, materials science and applications / edited by Liming Dai.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dai, Liming, 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Carbon.

Nanostructured materials.

Physical Description:

xv, 733 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Oxford : Elsevier, 2006.

Summary:

Professor Liming Dai is currently the Wright Brothers Institute Endowed Chair Professor of Nanomaterials at the University of Dayton. His expertise lies across numerous fields, including the synthesis, chemical modification and device fabrication of conjugated polymers, C60-containing polymers and carbon nanotubes. Professor Dai has published over 150 scientific papers in international journals, more than 10 patents and patent applications, and a research monograph on intelligent macromolecules. He is on the editorial board of two international journals and a referee for about 30 scientific journals. Regarded by peers as an authority on functional polymers and carbon nanotechnology, he regularly lectures across the United States and abroad.

Nanotechnology is no longer a merely social talking point and is beginning to affect the lives of everyone. Carbon nanotechnology as a major shaper of new nanotechnologies has evolved into a truly interdisciplinary field, which encompasses chemistry, physics, biology, medicine, materials science and engineering. This is a field in which a huge amount of literature has been generated within recent years, and the number of publications is still increasing every year. Carbon Nanotechnology aims to provide a timely coverage of the recent development in the field with updated reviews and remarks by world-renowned experts. Intended to be an exposition of cutting-edge research and development rather than a kind of conference proceeding, Carbon Nanotechnology will be very useful not only to experienced scientists and engineers, who wish to broaden their knowledge of the wide-ranging nanotechnology and/or to develop practical devices, but also to graduate and senior undergraduate students who look to make their mark in this field of the future.

Contents:

1 From conventional technology to carbon nanotechnology: The fourth industrial revolution and the discoveries of C[subscript 60], carbon nanotube and nanodiamond / Liming Dai 3

Part I Synthesis and Structure of Carbon Nanomaterials 13

2 Synthesis, growth mechanism and processing of carbon nanotubes / A. Govindaraj, C.N.R. Rao 15

3 Solid-state formation of carbon nanotubes / Y. Chen 53

4 Catalytic chemical vapor deposition of single-walled carbon nanotubes / Q. Fu, J. Liu 81

5 Fabrication of fullerene nanostructures / H.-M. Zhang, L.-J. Wan 109

6 Carbon blacks as the source materials for carbon nanotechnology / Masaki Ozawa, Eiji Osawa 127

Part II Chemistry and Physics of Carbon Nanomaterials 153

7 Functionalization and applications of [60]fullerene / A. Mateo-Alonso, D. Bonifazi, M. Prato 155

8 Functionalization and applications of carbon nanotubes / Liangti Qu, Kyung Min Lee, Liming Dai 191

9 Biological activity of pristine fullerene C[subscript 60] / L. B. Piotrovsky 235

10 Separation of metallic and semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes / Yi Lin, K. A. Shiral Fernando, Wei Wang, Ya-Ping Sun 255

11 Electrochemical properties of carbon nanotubes / S.E. Moulton, A.I. Minett, G.G. Wallace 297

12 Carbon nanotubes: Surface, porosity, and related applications / Q.-H. Yang, H.-M. Cheng 323

13 Carbon nanotubes as nanoelectromechanical systems components / Susan B. Sinnott, Narayan R. Aluru 361

Part III Carbon Nanomaterials for Device Applications 489

14 Aligned carbon nanotube membranes / B. Hinds 491

15 C[subscript 60] and carbon nanotube sensors / Toshiyuki Ohashi, Liming Dai 525

16 Carbon nanotubes for electron emitting devices / Kazuo Kajiwara, Yahachi Saito 577

17 Optical limiters and photovoltaic devices based on C[subscript 60], carbon nanotubes and their nanocomposites / M. H.-C. Jin, M. Durstock, L. Dai 611

18 Carbon nanotube and epoxy composites for military applications / Amanda M. Schrand, Tia Benson Tolle 633

19 Polymer and carbon nanotube composites for space applications / Kent A. Watson, John W. Connell 677

Outlook 699

20 From carbon nanotechnology to bionanotechnology: Protein and peptide nanofibrils and nanowires / Oleg I. Kiselev 701.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

044451855X

OCLC:

72004131

Publisher Number:

9780444518552