Overview
- Editors:
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M. F. Thorpe
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Michigan State University, East Lansing
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D. Tománek
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Michigan State University, East Lansing
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R. J. Enbody
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Michigan State University, East Lansing
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Table of contents (27 chapters)
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Electronic Properties of Nanotubes
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- M.S. Dresselhaus, M.A. Pimenta, K. Kneipp, S.D.M. Brown, P. Corio, A. Marucci et al.
Pages 253-274
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- G. Dresselhaus, M.A. Pimenta, R. Saito, J.C. Charlier, S.D.M. Brown, P. Corio et al.
Pages 275-295
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- L. Forro, J.-P. Salvetat, J.-M. Bonard, R. Bacsa, N.H. Thomson, S. Garaj et al.
Pages 297-320
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- S. Sanvito, Y.-K. Kwon, D. Tománek, C.J. Lambert
Pages 333-347
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- M. Ahlskog, R.J.M. Vullers, E. Seynaeve, C. Van Haesendonck, A. Fonseca, J. B. Nagy
Pages 349-354
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Applications of Nanotubes
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- W.B. Choi, Y.H. Lee, D.S. Chung, N.S. Lee, J.M. Kim
Pages 355-364
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- George D. Skidmore, Matthew Ellis, Jim Von Ehr
Pages 365-377
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Back Matter
Pages 379-398
About this book
This series of books, which is published at the rate of about one per year, addresses fundamental problems in materials science. The contents cover a broad range of topics from small clusters of atoms to engineering materials and involve chemistry, physics, materials science, and engineering, with length scales ranging from Ångstroms up to millimeters. The emphasis is on basic science rather than on applications. Each book focuses on a single area of current interest and brings together leading experts to give an up-to-date discussion of their work and the work of others. Each article contains enough references that the interested reader can access the relevant literature. Thanks are given to the Center for Fundamental Materials Research at Michigan State University for supporting this series. M. F. Thorpe, Series Editor E-mail: thorpe@pa. msu. edu East Lansing, Michigan V PREFACE It is hard to believe that not quite ten years ago, namely in 1991, nanotubes of carbon were discovered by Sumio Iijima in deposits on the electrodes of the same carbon arc apparatus that was used to produce fullerenes such as the “buckyball”. Nanotubes of carbon or other materials, consisting ofhollow cylinders that are only a few nanometers in diameter, yet up to millimeters long, are amazing structures that self-assemble under extreme conditions. Their quasi-one-dimensional character and virtual absence of atomic defects give rise to a plethora of unusual phenomena.