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Advanced Carbon Materials and Technology

ISBN: 978-1-118-89539-9

December 2013

512 pages

Description
The expansion of carbon materials is multidisciplinary and is related to physics, chemistry, biology, applied sciences and engineering. The research on carbon materials has mostly focused on aspects of fundamental physics as they unique electrical, thermal and mechanical properties applicable for the range of applications. The electrons in graphene and other derived carbon materials behave as dirac fermions due to their interaction with the ions of the lattice. This direction has led to the discovery of new phenomena such as Klein tunneling in carbon based solid state systems and the so-called half-integer quantum Hall effect.

Advanced Carbon Materials and Technology presents cutting-edge chapters on the processing, properties and technological developments of graphene, carbon nanotubes, carbon fibers, carbon particles and other carbon based structures including multifunctional graphene sheets, graphene quantum dots, bulky balls, carbon balls, and their polymer composites.

This book brings together respected international scholars writing on the innovative methodologies and strategies adopted in carbon materials research area including

  • Synthesis, characterization and functionalization of carbon nanotubes and graphene
  • Surface modification of graphene
  • Carbon based nanostructured materials
  • Graphene and carbon nanotube based electrochemical (bio)sensors for environmental monitoring
  • Carbon catalysts for hydrogen storage materials
  • Optical carbon nanoobjects
  • Graphene and carbon nanotube based biosensors
  • Carbon doped cryogel films
  • Bioimpact of carbon nanomaterials
  • Photocatalytic nature of carbon nanotube based composites
  • Engineering behavior of ash fills
  • Fly ash syntactic foams microstructure
About the Author

Ashutosh Tiwari is an Associate Professor at the Biosensors and Bioelectronics Centre, Linköping University, Sweden; Editor-in-Chief, Advanced Materials Letters; Secretary General, International Association of Advanced Materials; a materials chemist and also a docent in applied physics from Linköping University, Sweden. He has published more than 350 articles, patents, and conference proceedings in the field of materials science and technology and has edited/authored more than fifteen books on the advanced state-of-the-art of materials science. He is a founding member of the Advanced Materials World Congress and the Indian Materials Congress.

S. K. Shukla is currently an Assistant Professor in the Polymer Science Department, Bhaskaracharya College of Applied Sciences, University of Delhi, India. He earned his MSc and PhD degrees in chemistry from the Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gorakhpur University, India. He has published more than fifty papers and is the author of seven book chapters. He is the recipient of the International Association of Advanced Materials Scientist Award for his contribution in the area of electronic carbon materials and technology.