Akasaka / Wudl / Nagase Chemistry of Nanocarbons

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-470-97577-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 526 Seiten, E-Book

During the last decade, fullerenes and carbon nanotubes haveattracted special interest as new nanocarbons with novelproperties. Because of their hollow caged structure, they can beused as containers for atoms and molecules, and nanotubes can beused as miniature test-tubes.
Chemistry of Nanocarbons presents the most up-to-dateresearch on chemical aspects of nanometer-sized forms of carbon,with emphasis on fullerenes, nanotubes and nanohorns. All modernchemical aspects are mentioned, including noncovalent interactions,supramolecular assembly, dendrimers, nanocomposites, chirality,nanodevices, host-guest interactions, endohedral fullerenes,magnetic resonance imaging, nanodiamond particles and graphene. Thebook covers experimental and theoretical aspects of nanocarbons, aswell as their uses and potential applications, ranging frommolecular electronics to biology and medicine.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Akasaka, Takeshi

Wudl, Fred

Nagase, Shigeru

Über Autor(innen)

Fred Wudl is a Professor of Chemistry and Materials andCo-Director of the Center for Polymers and Organic Solids at theUniversity of California, Santa Barbara. He is most widely knownfor his work on organic conductors and superconductors. Currentlyhe is interested in the optical and electrooptical properties ofprocessable conjugated polymers as well as in the organic chemistryof fullerenes.
Shigeru Nagase is Professor at the Institute forMolecular Science, Okazaki, Japan. He has made a wide range oforiginal contributions in theoretical and computational chemistry.He has performed many important studies of fullerene,endofullerenes, carbon nanotubes and carbon peapods as well assilicon and germanium clusters.
Takeshi Akasaka is Professor at the Center for TsukubaAdvanced Research Alliance TARA Center) and Department ofChemistry, University of Tsukuba, Japan. His research interestscover the development and chemical functionalization of fullerenes,metallofullerenes, endofullerenes and carbon nanotubes.