Carbon Nanotubes and Related Structures (PDF)

CARBON NANOTUBES AND RELATED STRUCTURES: PRODUCTION AND FORMATION Introduction Carbon Nanotube Production Catalysts Growth Enhancement Growth Mechanisms Functionalization Purification Futures Perspectives THEORY OF ELECTRONIC AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF DNA-SWNT HYBRIDS Introduction Physical Structure and Bonding in Nanotube-DNA Hybrids: A Short Review Quantum Mechanical Modeling of the Hybrid Structure: Tight Binding Band Structure Calculation Self-Consistent Computation Scheme: Acting Potential Screening Factor and the Dielectric Permittivity Polarization Component of Cohesion Energy of the SWNT-ssDNA Hybrid Optical Absorption of SWNT-DNA Hybrids Summary ELECTROCHEMISTRY Introduction Electronic Properties of SWNTs Electrode Potentials Versus Work Functions Electrochemistry at SWNTs Versus Electrochemistry of SWNTs Carbon Nanotubes for Electrochemical Sensors and Biosensors Electrochemistry of Carbon Nanotubes Cyclic Voltammetric Investigations of Solutions of Individual SWNTs Vis-NIR Spectroelectrochemical Investigation of True Solutions of Unfunctionalized SWNTs Standard Redox Potentials of Individual SWNTs in Solution Fermi Level and Excitonic Binding Energy of the Nanotubes Conclusions and Perspectives PHOTOPHYSICS Introduction Molecular Nanoparticles: Carbon Nanotubes Have it All Understanding Optical Properties The Coulomb Interaction and Bound States Colloidal Chemistry Facilitates Detailed Study of Nanotube Optics Excited State Dynamics and Nonlinear Optics Outlook NONCOVALENT FUNCTIONALIZATION OF CARBON NANOTUBES Introduction Early Insights in the Noncovalent Interaction of CNTs with Solvents and Classical Macrocyclic Scaffolds Noncovalent Interactions of CNTs with Small Aromatic Molecules Noncovalent Interactions of CNTs with Heterocyclic Polyaromatic Systems Noncovalent Interactions of CNTs with Surfactants and Ionic Liquids Noncovalent Interactions of CNTs with Polymers Optically Active SWCNTS Noncovalent Interactions of CNTs with Nanoparticles Summary

Dirk M. Guldi completed both his undergraduate studies (1988) and PhD (1990) at the University of Cologne (Germany). Following postdoctoral appointments at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (USA), the Hahn-Meitner Institute Berlin (1992), and Syracuse University, he joined the faculty of the Notre Dame Radiation Laboratory in 1995.
He was promoted a year later from assistant to associate professional specialist, and remained affiliated to Notre Dame until 2004. Since 2004, he is Full Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy at the Friedrich-Alexander-University in Erlangen. His research interests focus on the fundamental structural and electronic requirements for ultrafast charge transport and optical gating in carbon nanostructure arrays of donor-acceptor ensembles and in nanostructured thin films to address issues that correspond to the optimization and fine-tuning of dynamics and/or efficiencies of solar energy conversion.

Nazario Martín is full professor of Organic Chemistry at the University Complutense of Madrid. His research interests span a range of targets with emphasis on the chemistry of carbon nanostructures involving fullerenes and carbon nanotubes, pi-conjugated systems as molecular wires, and Electroactive molecules, in the context of electron transfer processes, photovoltaic applications and nanoscience. He is currently a member of the Editorial Board of Chemical Communications, and the Regional Editor for Europe of the journal Fullerenes, Nanotubes and Carbon Nanostructures. He has received the DuPont Award for Science in 2007. He is a fellow of The Royal Society of Chemistry, vice-director of IMDEA - Nanoscience Institute, and the President of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry.

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