The unique ability of carbon atoms to participate in robust covalent bonds with other carbon
atoms in diverse hybridization states (sp, sp 2, sp 3) or with nonmetallic elements enables …

Carbon is one of the basic elements for life on Earth. It exists in diverse allotropic forms while
being different in chemical and physical properties. The best well-known natural allotropes …

Fullerenes-a guide to the current state of knowledge in the field The last decade has seen
an explosion of research into the chemical and physical properties of a promising new class …

Collating our current knowledge and the latest developments for enabling breakthrough
discoveries, this book focuses on the synthesis and applications of materials that are based …

The aesthetically pleasing molecular architectures of fullerenes and nanotubes are
appealing not only because of their beauty but also because they are responsible for the …

Since the discovery of C60fullerene, carbon-based nanostructures have become one of the
hottest research topics in science. During the past decade research efforts have mainly been …

The discovery of carbon nanostructures, essentially carbon nanotubes (CNT) and carbon
nanofibres (CNF) has led to a big effort devoted to their synthesis, characterization, surface …

Soon after buckminsterfullerene C60 was finally isolated in a pure state and the anticipated
polyhedral structure experimentally confirmed, a variety of polymorphs of fullerenic carbon …

The discovery of fullerenes (also known as buckyballs) has generated tremendous
excitement and opened up a new field of carbon chemistry. As the first book available on this …

This book covers all the most important areas of nanotube research, as well as discussing
related structures such as carbon nanoparticles and'inorganic fullerenes'. Carbon …