Fundamentals of Carbon From Atomic to Bulk Scales

This book discusses all forms of carbon, their properties and applications on different scales and, most importantly, link them together from a material science perspective.

Maher S. Amer, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Wright State University, in Dayton, Ohio. He is a USA academic who is recognized with the US Core Scholar status. He is also recognized in England as a former visiting Fellow at University of Cambridge; in Germany as a Humboldtian Scholar at Max-Planck Society, and in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as a visiting Professor at KAUST. He has over 20 years academic experience in carbon materials and more than a decade in nanotechnology and fullerene behavior.

1. INTRODUCTION

2. THE CARBON ATOM

3. CARBON ON THE MACRO-SCALE
3.1. Diamond
3.2. Graphite
3.3. Carbon Foams

4. CARBON ON THE MICRO-SCALE
4.1. PAN based Carbon Fibres
4.2. Pitch Based Carbon Fibres
4.3. Diamond-like-carbon (DLC)

5. CARBON ON THE SUB-MICRO-SCALE (NANO-FIBRES)

6. CARBON ON THE NANO-SCALE (FULLERENES)
6.1. Zero-dimensional Fullerene: Spherical Fullerenes and related structures.
6.2. One-dimensional Fullerenes: Cylindrical Nano tubes, SWCNT, DWCNT, and MWCNT
6.3. Two-dimensional Fullerenes: Graphene; mono- and multi-layered structures.
6.4. Hybrid structures : graphene, tube sandwiches, etc.
6.5. Carbon Quantum Dots
6.6. Entropic Effects

7. CARBON ON THE MOLECULAR SCALE
7.1. Hydrocarbon gases
7.2. Amino-acids, DNA and Proteins
7.3. regulatory molecules in the human body: hormones Adrenaline etc.

8. FUTURE CHALLENGES