Supercarbon: Synthesis, Properties and Applications - Springer Series in Materials Science Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1998 edition

Description for Sales People: The book appeals to materials researchers, physicists and research engineers involved in the development of new nanoelectric devices. The topic of this book is also known as "supercarbon." The present knowledge in this field is summarized as a status report and gives an introduction to the physics of nanotubes. Table of Contents: I. Introduction, II. Overview, III. Synthesis and Properties of New Pi-Electron Materials - 1 Carbon Nanotubes, IV. Synthesis and Properties of New Pi-Electron Materials -2 New Carbons and Graphites, V. Applications of New Pi-Electron Materials, VI. Summary. Marc Notes: Originally published: 1998.; This text is a status report on synthesis, properties and applications of new carbonaceous materials with extended pi-electron clouds in the solid state, including graphite, fullerenes and carbon nanotubes. Publisher Marketing: The information revolution of the twentieth century was brought about by microelectronics based on a simple and common material, silicon. Although silicon will continue to be of central importance in the next century, carbon, silicon's upstairs neighbor in the periodic table, will also be of great impor tance in future technology. Carbon has more flexible bonding and hence has various unique physical, chemical and biological properties. It has two types of bonding, sp3 and sp2, in diamond and graphite, respectively. The existence of the latter, "7r-electron bonding," is responsible for carbon's versatile tal ents. Those materials having extended 7r-electron clouds are called '7r-electron materials'. They include graphite, carbon nanotubes, fullerenes and various carbonaceous materials. They may be called "supercarbon" because of their fabulous multiformity and versatile properties. This volume is a status report on the synthesis, properties and appli cations of 7r-electron materials, representing an updated proceedings of the International Workshop on 7r-Electron Materials held at the Northwestern University, 'Evanston, Illinois, USA, August 13-14,1996. The Workshop was organized jointly by the Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST) and the Materials Research Center at the Northwestern University (NWU) in order to provide an opportunity for scientists and engineers to meet and dis cuss the latest advances in this field and in commemoration of the Yoshimura 7r-Electron Materials Project, one of Japan's national projects in the JST's ERATO (Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology) program."