Mystery of Carbon: An Introduction to Carbon Materials

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A succinct introduction for students in solid-state physics or engineering to the exciting and powerful recent discoveries made in the field of carbon materials, and the impact this has had on developmental science and technology, with emphasis on the newscience and technology of nanostructures and nanodevices. PRELIMS.pdf Preface Outline placeholder Prerequisite Foreword Author biography Manijeh Razeghi CH001.pdf Chapter 1 The carbon atom 1.1 Introduction The carbon atom Isotopes of carbon 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 References and further reading CH002.pdf Chapter 2 Diamond 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Introduction to diamond 2.3 Band structure of diamond 2.3.1 Some properties of the diamond electronic structure 2.3.2 Doped diamond and applications 2.4 Superconductivity in p-doped diamond 2.5 Summary 2.6 Exercises References and further reading CH003.pdf Chapter 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 3.4.1 Digression: high-Tc cuprate superconductors 3.4.2 Fullerene nanowhiskers 3.5 Summary 3.6 Exercises References and further reading CH004.pdf Chapter 4 Graphene 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Graphene band structure 4.2.1 Tight-binding method 4.2.2 Graphene wavefunction 4.2.3 Kane theory in the −2-band model with valence and conduction band 4.2.4 Density functional theory versus tight binding in nanoribbons 4.2.5 Klein tunneling 4.3 Graphene properties 4.4 Graphite 4.4.1 Structure 4.4.2 Properties and applications 4.4.3 Pyrolytic graphite: diamagnetism [2, 3] 4.5 Graphene nanoribbons 4.6 Graphene oxide fluorescence 4.7 Summary 4.8 Exercises References and further reading CH005.pdf Chapter 5 Carbon nanotubes and polyacenes 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Graphene and nanotubes 5.3 Carbon nanotube synthesis 5.4 Material properties 5.4.1 Thermal conductivity of carbon nanotubes and related materials 5.4.2 Remarkable strength: the space elevator 5.5 Optoelectronic properties 5.5.1 Electrostatic doping and formation of p–n junctions 5.5.2 Photonic response of a nanotube p–n junction 5.6 Applications of carbon nanotubes 5.6.1 The carbon nanotube-field effect transistor (CNT-FET) device 5.6.2 Carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer technology 5.6.3 Carbon nanotubes as filters 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 References and further reading CH006.pdf Chapter 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 6.8.1 Tandem organic solar cells 6.9 Polymer light-emitting diodes 6.10 Summary 6.11 Exercises References and further reading CH007.pdf Chapter 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) 7.3.1 Transition metal dichalcogenide synthesis 7.3.2 Absorption and reflection of transition metal dichalcogenides 7.4 Flexible transistors 7.5 Applications of transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers to molecular sensing 7.6 Interlayer excitons 7.6.1 Bose–Einstein condensation 7.7 Summary 7.8 Exercises References and further reading CH008.pdf Chapter 8 Conclusions References