Abstract: The role of carbon in nanochemistry has grown in importance since the discovery of fullerenes and nanotubes. The chapter explores silicon particles in addition to carbon materials. It illustrates details about fine particles of carbon and silicon and also describes the Fullerenes that have enhanced the importance of carbon in nanochemistry. The chapter outlines filling of tubes, grafting of functional groups, and tubes as matrices, and intercalation of atoms and molecules into multiwalled tubes. The discovery of fullerenes made a substantial contribution to the development of nanochemistry of nonmetals. Carbon nanotubes that are single- and multi-walled coaxial nanotubes are formed as a result of rolling up strips of graphene sheets to form seamless cylinders. The tube's structure type affects its chemical, electronic, and mechanical properties. At present, the discovery of nanotubes is believed to mark a transition to real nanotechnologies. The examples of the use of applications of carbon nanotubes in nanotechnology clearly demonstrate that in contemporary research the borders between fundamental and applied studies disappear.
Publication Year: 2006
Publication Date: 2006-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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