Carbon Nanotubes Synthesis, Structure, Properties, and Applications /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Dresselhaus, Mildred S. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Dresselhaus, Gene (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Avouris, Phaedon (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2001.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2001.
• Series: Topics in Applied Physics, 80
• Subjects: Nanotechnology.; Materials science.; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials.

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 technique...

Table of Contents:

• to Carbon Materials Research
• Relation of Carbon Nanotubes to Other Carbon Materials
• Nanotube Growth and Characterization
• Growth Mechanisms of Carbon Nanotubes
• Nanotubes from Inorganic Materials
• Electronic Properties, Junctions, and Defects of Carbon Nanotubes
• Electrical Transport Through Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes
• Scanning Probe Microscopy Studies of Carbon Nanotubes
• Optical Properties and Raman Spectroscopy of Carbon Nanotubes
• Electron Spectroscopy Studies of Carbon Nanotubes
• Phonons and Thermal Properties of Carbon Nanotubes
• Mechanical Properties of Carbon Nanotubes
• Physical Properties of Multi-wall Nanotubes
• Applications of Carbon Nanotubes.