The mystery of carbon :an introduction to carbon materials /

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"Version: 20191101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.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. Exercises2. 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. Exercises3. 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. Exercises4. 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. Exercises5. 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. Exercises6. 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. Exercises7. 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.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 developmental science. The book provides an overview of the carbon atom and its occurrences and examines carbon allotropes including, fullerene, graphene, carbon nanotubes, polyacenes, carbon-based polymers and two-dimensional metal-dichalcogenide electronic structures. By providing a uniquely encompassing and interlinked overview to carbon science, this book helps the reader realise the importance of carbon and how little we know about this mysterious but prevalent atom. It is a valuable reference for materials scientists and an essential text for any solid-state or electrical engineering student.Graduate students, upper level undergraduates.Also available in print.Mode of access: World Wide Web.System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader, or Kindle reader.Professor Manijeh Razeghi is the Walter P. Murphy Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the Director of the Center for Quantum Devices at Northwestern University. Professor Razeghi is a Fellow of the MRS, IOP, IEEE, APS, SPIE, OSA, IEC; Fellow and Life Member of Society of Women Engineers (SWE); elected life Fellow of SWE, IEEE, and MRS, and a member of the Electrochemical Society, ACS and AAAS. Professor Razeghi's current research interest is in nanoscale optoelectronic quantum devices and systems from deep UV (100nm) to Thz (300 microns).Title from PDF title page (viewed on December 9, 2019).

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1 online resource (various pagings) :illustrations (some color).

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English

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9780750311823

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Nanostructured materials.
SCIENCE / Physics / Atomic & Molecular.
Carbon.
Carbon composites.

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