The mystery of carbon : an introduction to carbon materials /

The abundance of carbon, coupled with its remarkable chemistry, make the element unique and essential to life and the universe. This book offers a succinct introduction to recent discoveries made in the field of carbon materials, their synthesis, allotropes and the impact this has had on development...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Razeghi, M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2020]
Colección:IOP ebooks. 2020 collection.
Temas:
Carbon.
Carbon composites.
Nanostructured materials.
Condensed matter physics (liquid state & solid state physics).
SCIENCE / Physics / Atomic & Molecular.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. The carbon atom
  • 1.1. Introduction
  • 1.2. Electronic configuration and covalent bonding between carbon atoms
  • 1.3. Carbon allotropes
  • 1.4. Bonding energy and energy bands
  • 1.5. Summary
  • 1.6. Exercises
  • 2. Diamond
  • 2.1. Introduction
  • 2.2. Introduction to diamond
  • 2.3. Band structure of diamond
  • 2.4. Superconductivity in p-doped diamond
  • 2.5. Summary
  • 2.6. Exercises
  • 3. Carbon fullerenes
  • 3.1. Carbon fullerene : an introduction
  • 3.2. Carbon fullerenes : the fullerene molecule
  • 3.3. Useful molecules derived from fullerenes
  • 3.4. Electron-doped fullerene superconductivity
  • 3.5. Summary
  • 3.6. Exercises
  • 4. Graphene
  • 4.1. Introduction
  • 4.2. Graphene band structure
  • 4.3. Graphene properties
  • 4.4. Graphite
  • 4.5. Graphene nanoribbons
  • 4.6. Graphene oxide fluorescence
  • 4.7. Summary
  • 4.8. Exercises
  • 5. Carbon nanotubes and polyacenes
  • 5.1. Introduction
  • 5.2. Graphene and nanotubes
  • 5.3. Carbon nanotube synthesis
  • 5.4. Material properties
  • 5.5. Optoelectronic properties
  • 5.6. Applications of carbon nanotubes
  • 5.7. Carbon nanodots
  • 5.8. Carbon-based molecules with aromatic cores and hydrogen or more complex terminated side chains
  • 5.9. Molecules with graphene cores and self-assembly
  • 5.10. Summary
  • 5.11. Exercises
  • 6. Carbon-based polymers
  • 6.1. Introduction
  • 6.2. Introduction to conjugated polymers
  • 6.3. Band structure and Peierls relaxation
  • 6.4. Coulomb interactions in polymers
  • 6.5. Solitons and polarons in polyacetylene
  • 6.6. Conductivity of doped polyacetylene
  • 6.7. The crystalline highly ordered polymers : polydiacetylene
  • 6.8. Bulk heterojunction solar cells based on fullerenes P3HT/PCBM
  • 6.9. Polymer light-emitting diodes
  • 6.10. Summary
  • 6.11. Exercises
  • 7. Two-dimensional metal dichalcogenides and their electronic structures
  • 7.1. Introduction
  • 7.2. Van der Waals and non-van der Waals heterostructures
  • 7.3. Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs)
  • 7.4. Flexible transistors
  • 7.5. Applications of transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers to molecular sensing
  • 7.6. Interlayer excitons
  • 7.7. Summary
  • 7.8. Exercises
  • 8. Conclusions.

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