Foreword ...................................................... vii
Preface ........................................................ ix
Acknowledgments ................................................ xi
List of Contributors ......................................... xiii
INTRODUCTION .................................................... 1
1. From conventional technology to carbon nanotechnology:
The fourth industrial revolution and the discoveries of
C60, carbon nanotube and nanodiamond
Liming Dai ................................................ 3
PART I SYNTHESIS AND STRUCTURE OF CARBON NANOMATERIALS ......... 13
2. Synthesis, growth mechanism and processing of carbon
nanotubes
A. Govindaraj and C.N.R. Rao ............................. 15
3. Solid-state formation of carbon nanotubes
Y. Chen .................................................. 53
4. Catalytic chemical vapor deposition of single-walled
carbon nanotubes
Q. Fu and J. Liu ......................................... 81
5. Fabrication of fullerene nanostructures
H.-M. Zhang and L.-J. Wan ............................... 109
6. Carbon blacks as the source materials for carbon
nanotechnology
Masaki Ozawa and Eiji Osawa ............................. 127
PART II CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS OF CARBON NANOMATERIALS ......... 153
7. Functionalization and applications of [60]fullerene
A. Mateo-Alonso, D. Bonifazi and M. Prato ............... 155
8. Functionalization and applications of carbon nanotubes
Liangti Qu, Kyung Min Lee and Liming Dai ................ 191
9. Biological activity of pristine fullerene C60
L.B. Piotrovsky ......................................... 235
10.Separation of metallic and semiconducting single-walled
carbon nanotubes
Yi Lin, K. A. Shiral Fernando, Wei Wang and Ya-Ping
Sun ..................................................... 255
11.Electrochemical properties of carbon nanotubes
S.E. Moulton, A.I. Minett, and G.G. Wallace ............. 297
12.Carbon nanotubes: Surface, porosity, and related
applications
Q.-H. Yang and H.-M. Cheng .............................. 323
13.Carbon nanotubes as nanoelectromechanical systems
components
Susan B. Sinnott and Narayan R. Aluru ................... 361
PART III CARBON NANOMATERIALS FOR DEVICE APPLICATIONS ......... 489
14.Aligned carbon nanotube membranes
B. Hinds ................................................ 491
15.C60 and carbon nanotube sensors
Toshiyuki Ohashi and Liming Dai ......................... 525
16.Carbon nanotubes for electron emitting devices
Kazuo Kajiwara and Yahachi Saito ........................ 577
17.Optical limiters and photovoltaic devices based
on C60, carbon nanotubes and their nanocomposites
M. H.-C. Jin, M. Durstock and L. Dai .................... 611
18.Carbon nanotube and epoxy composites for military
applications
Amanda M. Schrand and Tia Benson Tolle .................. 633
19.Polymer and carbon nanotube composites for space
applications
Kent A. Watson and John W. Connell ...................... 677
OUTLOOK ....................................................... 699
20.From carbon nanotechnology to bionanotechnology:
Protein and peptide nanofibrils and nanowires
Oleg I. Kiselev ......................................... 701
Author index .................................................. 723
Subject index ................................................. 727
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