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Computer-Based Modeling of Novel Carbon Systems and Their Properties

Beyond Nanotubes

  • Presents a unique survey of the theoretical modeling of all phases of carbon
  • Explores the computational challenges posed by the complex bonding in carbon
  • Reports the recent and controversial theories e.g. the occurrence of magnetism
  • Provides a basis towards a unified theoretical description of carbon Valuable for the whole community of computational condensed matter physicists
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Carbon Materials: Chemistry and Physics (CMCP, volume 3)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
  2. Liquid Carbon: Freezing Line and Structure Near Freezing

    • Luca M. Ghiringhelli, Evert Jan Meijer
    Pages 1-36
  3. Hexagon Preserving Carbon Nanofoams

    • Gotthard Seifert, Agnieszka Kuc, Thomas Heine
    Pages 57-77
  4. Amorphous Carbon and Related Materials

    • Nigel A. Marks
    Pages 129-169
  5. Structural, Mechanical, and Superconducting Properties of Clathrates

    • Xavier Blase, Giorgio Benedek, Marco Bernasconi
    Pages 171-206
  6. Exotic Carbon Phases: Structure and Properties

    • M. G. Ganchenkova, T. T. Vehviläinen, R. M. Nieminen
    Pages 207-240
  7. Back Matter

    Pages 241-249

About this book

During the last twenty years, the multiplicity of potential carbon structures has consistently posed a formidable challenge to theoretical and computational physicists. Several different methods are currently being used to study the structure and the properties of such systems. These methods include simulations based on empirical potentials, tight-binding calculations and density functional theory (DFT). A combination of these methods is needed to make significant progress in the carbon field.

This volume provides the reader with a survey of state-of-the-art theoretical and computational contributions featuring novel carbon systems (excluding nanotubes). The chapters are authored by leading researchers who are all actively involved with different aspects of carbon structure and property elucidation. Consequently, a variety of methods are presented to the reader. The editors have successfully compiled an informative book that:

•  Showcases the latest results in carbon materials
•  Demonstrates how different theoretical methods are combined
•  Explains how new carbon structures are predicted

Computer-Based Modeling of Novel Carbon Systems and Their Properties is aimed at advanced undergraduates, graduates, and researchers with an interest in computational nanomaterials.

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From the reviews:

“A collection of separate studies, each looking at a different range of ‘novel carbon system’. … book will serve for many researchers as an excellent guide to what has already been done, and also highlights where there are still gaps. It will be equally at home on the desk of a starting PhD student as a more experienced researcher. I strongly recommend it for anyone with a general interest in materials physics, as well as the more focussed reader doing computer-based modelling of carbon-based materials.” (Matt Probert, Contemporary Physics, June, 2013)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Cagliari, Monserrato, Italy

    Luciano Colombo

  • Inst. Molecules & Materials, Radboud University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands

    Annalisa Fasolino

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