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Carbon Nanotubes

Synthesis, Structure, Properties, and Applications

  • Comprehensive review of the present status of research
  • With a Foreword by Nobel Laureate R. E. Smalley
  • Available online in LINK (http://link.springer.de/series/tap/)
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  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Topics in Applied Physics (TAP, volume 80)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XV
  2. Introduction to Carbon Materials Research

    • Mildred S. Dresselhaus, Phaedon Avouris
    Pages 1-9
  3. Relation of Carbon Nanotubes to Other Carbon Materials

    • Mildred S. Dresselhaus, Morinobu Endo
    Pages 11-28
  4. Nanotube Growth and Characterization

    • Hongjie Dai
    Pages 29-53
  5. Growth Mechanisms of Carbon Nanotubes

    • Jean-Christophe Charlier, Sumio Iijima
    Pages 55-81
  6. Nanotubes from Inorganic Materials

    • Reshef Tenne, Alex K. Zettl
    Pages 81-112
  7. Electrical Transport Through Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes

    • Zhen Yao, Cees Dekker, Phaedon Avouris
    Pages 147-171
  8. Scanning Probe Microscopy Studies of Carbon Nanotubes

    • Teri Wang Odom, Jason H. Hafner, Charles M. Lieber
    Pages 173-211
  9. Optical Properties and Raman Spectroscopy of Carbon Nanotubes

    • Riichiro Saito, Hiromichi Kataura
    Pages 213-247
  10. Electron Spectroscopy Studies of Carbon Nanotubes

    • Jörg H. Fink, Philippe Lambin
    Pages 247-272
  11. Mechanical Properties of Carbon Nanotubes

    • Boris I. Yakobson, Phaedon Avouris
    Pages 287-327
  12. Physical Properties of Multi-wall Nanotubes

    • László Forró, Christian Schönenberger
    Pages 329-391
  13. Applications of Carbon Nanotubes

    • Pulickel M. Ajayan, Otto Z. Zhou
    Pages 391-425
  14. Back Matter

    Pages 427-447

About this book

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.

Reviews

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 and experimental aspects is covered on 447 pages. The volume certainly represents an excellent contribution to carbon-based materials science." (Z. Slanina, Fullerens, Nanotubes, and Carbon Nanostructures, Vol. 10 (2), 2002)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Physics, Massachussetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

    Mildred S. Dresselhaus, Gene Dresselhaus

  • IBM Research Division, T.J. Watson Research center, Yorktown Hights, USA

    Phaedon Avouris

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Carbon Nanotubes

  • Book Subtitle: Synthesis, Structure, Properties, and Applications

  • Editors: Mildred S. Dresselhaus, Gene Dresselhaus, Phaedon Avouris

  • Series Title: Topics in Applied Physics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-39947-X

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2001

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-30789-2Published: 17 April 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-39947-6Published: 01 July 2003

  • Series ISSN: 0303-4216

  • Series E-ISSN: 1437-0859

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 448

  • Number of Illustrations: 270 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Nanotechnology, Characterization and Evaluation of Materials

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eBook USD 119.00
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Softcover Book USD 159.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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