Computer-Based Modeling of Novel Carbon Systems and Their Properties Beyond Nanotubes /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Colombo, Luciano (Editor), Fasolino, Annalisa (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Series: Carbon Materials: Chemistry and Physics, 3
• Subjects: Chemistry.; Chemistry, Physical and theoretical.; Materials science.; Nanotechnology.; Theoretical and Computational Chemistry.; Materials Science, general.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Liquid Carbon: Freezing Line and Structure Near Freezing
• Structure, Stability and Electronic Properties of Nanodiamonds
• Hexagon Preserving Carbon Nanofoams
• Simulations of the Structural and Chemical Properties of Nanoporous Carbon
• Amorphous Carbon and Related Materials
• Structural, Mechanical, and Superconducting Properties of Clathrates
• Exotic Carbon Phases: Structure and Properties.