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Understanding Carbon Nanotubes: From Basics to Applications (Lecture Notes in Physics)

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Now comes the hard work.

Several years ago, in the 90s, carbon nanotubes were first seen when C60 (fullerenes) were made using electric arc discharges. The exciting potential for nanotubes was quickly recognised. It is part of the road to this still hypothetical future that this book is devoted. It draws together ideas from chemistry, physics and material science.

Hence, one synthesis method uses Chemical Vapour Deposition (CVD), which is a longstanding idea used in making surface films. But the book also looks at possible ways by which the nanotubes actually grow, at the atomic level. Researchers want ways to precisely control the nanotubes that are made.

The physics is also interesting. A nanotube can be a quasi one or two dimensional structure. Very useful for investigating quantum phenomena, as well as larger scale properties like electrical and thermal conductivities.