Ebook: Diamond and Related Nanostructures

Over the past twenty years, the field of carbon structures has been invigorated by the discovery of fullerenes and carbon nanotubes. These nano-structured carbons have attracted a tremendous interest in the fundamental properties of discrete carbon molecules, leading to the discovery of novel complex crystalline and quasi-crystalline materials. As a consequence, a variety of applications have been developed, including technical and bio-medical materials and miniaturized tools.

Diamond and Related Nanostructures focuses on the advances in the area of diamond-like carbon nanostructures (hyper-structures built from fullerenes and/or carbon nanotube junctions) and other related carbon nanostructures. Each chapter contributes to the topic from different fields, ranging from theory to synthesis and properties investigation of these new materials.

This volume brings together the major findings in the field and provides a source of inspiration and understanding to advanced undergraduates, graduates, and researchers in the fields of Physics, Graph Theory, Crystallography, Computational and Synthetic Chemistry.

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Over the past twenty years, the field of carbon structures has been invigorated by the discovery of fullerenes and carbon nanotubes. These nano-structured carbons have attracted a tremendous interest in the fundamental properties of discrete carbon molecules, leading to the discovery of novel complex crystalline and quasi-crystalline materials. As a consequence, a variety of applications have been developed, including technical and bio-medical materials and miniaturized tools.

Diamond and Related Nanostructures focuses on the advances in the area of diamond-like carbon nanostructures (hyper-structures built from fullerenes and/or carbon nanotube junctions) and other related carbon nanostructures. Each chapter contributes to the topic from different fields, ranging from theory to synthesis and properties investigation of these new materials.

This volume provides a source of inspiration and understanding to advanced undergraduates, graduates, and researchers in the fields of Physics, Graph Theory, Crystallography, Computational and Synthetic Chemistry.

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Over the past twenty years, the field of carbon structures has been invigorated by the discovery of fullerenes and carbon nanotubes. These nano-structured carbons have attracted a tremendous interest in the fundamental properties of discrete carbon molecules, leading to the discovery of novel complex crystalline and quasi-crystalline materials. As a consequence, a variety of applications have been developed, including technical and bio-medical materials and miniaturized tools.

Diamond and Related Nanostructures focuses on the advances in the area of diamond-like carbon nanostructures (hyper-structures built from fullerenes and/or carbon nanotube junctions) and other related carbon nanostructures. Each chapter contributes to the topic from different fields, ranging from theory to synthesis and properties investigation of these new materials.

This volume provides a source of inspiration and understanding to advanced undergraduates, graduates, and researchers in the fields of Physics, Graph Theory, Crystallography, Computational and Synthetic Chemistry.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Diamond Hydrocarbons and Related Structures....Pages 1-27
Diamond and Diamond-Like Carbon....Pages 29-47
Experimental Access to Centropolycyclic Carbon Compounds Containing the Massive C17-Core: On the Way to D5 Seeds....Pages 49-73
Two C28 Clathrates....Pages 75-89
Diamond D5 ....Pages 91-105
Energetics of Multi-shell Cages....Pages 107-119
On Molecular Dynamics of the Diamond D5 Substructures....Pages 121-139
P-Type and Related Networks: Design, Energetics, and Topology....Pages 141-170
Omega Polynomial in Hyperdiamonds....Pages 171-192
Cluj and Other Polynomials of Diamond D6 and Related Networks....Pages 193-206
Hypergraphene from Armchair Nanotube Y Junctions....Pages 207-227
Energetics and Topology of Polybenzenes....Pages 229-249
Fullerene-Like Spheres with Faces of Negative Curvature....Pages 251-274
Toward Molecules with Nonstandard Symmetry....Pages 275-285
Carbon Networks in the Solid State: A Setup Test for Computational Plane-Wave Studies of Mechanical and Electronic Properties....Pages 287-297
Drawing Diamond Structures with Eigenvectors....Pages 299-310
On the Structure of Quasicrystals in a Higher-Dimensional Space....Pages 311-320
Mathematics of D5 Network....Pages 321-333
Quasicrystals: Between Spongy and Full Space Filling....Pages 335-385
Back Matter....Pages 387-393

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Over the past twenty years, the field of carbon structures has been invigorated by the discovery of fullerenes and carbon nanotubes. These nano-structured carbons have attracted a tremendous interest in the fundamental properties of discrete carbon molecules, leading to the discovery of novel complex crystalline and quasi-crystalline materials. As a consequence, a variety of applications have been developed, including technical and bio-medical materials and miniaturized tools.

Diamond and Related Nanostructures focuses on the advances in the area of diamond-like carbon nanostructures (hyper-structures built from fullerenes and/or carbon nanotube junctions) and other related carbon nanostructures. Each chapter contributes to the topic from different fields, ranging from theory to synthesis and properties investigation of these new materials.

This volume provides a source of inspiration and understanding to advanced undergraduates, graduates, and researchers in the fields of Physics, Graph Theory, Crystallography, Computational and Synthetic Chemistry.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Diamond Hydrocarbons and Related Structures....Pages 1-27
Diamond and Diamond-Like Carbon....Pages 29-47
Experimental Access to Centropolycyclic Carbon Compounds Containing the Massive C17-Core: On the Way to D5 Seeds....Pages 49-73
Two C28 Clathrates....Pages 75-89
Diamond D5 ....Pages 91-105
Energetics of Multi-shell Cages....Pages 107-119
On Molecular Dynamics of the Diamond D5 Substructures....Pages 121-139
P-Type and Related Networks: Design, Energetics, and Topology....Pages 141-170
Omega Polynomial in Hyperdiamonds....Pages 171-192
Cluj and Other Polynomials of Diamond D6 and Related Networks....Pages 193-206
Hypergraphene from Armchair Nanotube Y Junctions....Pages 207-227
Energetics and Topology of Polybenzenes....Pages 229-249
Fullerene-Like Spheres with Faces of Negative Curvature....Pages 251-274
Toward Molecules with Nonstandard Symmetry....Pages 275-285
Carbon Networks in the Solid State: A Setup Test for Computational Plane-Wave Studies of Mechanical and Electronic Properties....Pages 287-297
Drawing Diamond Structures with Eigenvectors....Pages 299-310
On the Structure of Quasicrystals in a Higher-Dimensional Space....Pages 311-320
Mathematics of D5 Network....Pages 321-333
Quasicrystals: Between Spongy and Full Space Filling....Pages 335-385
Back Matter....Pages 387-393
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