Nanotechnologies: concepts, processing and applications

by Lacaze, Pierre-Camille

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Full title :Nanotechnologies : concepts, processing and applications / Pierre-Camille Lacaze.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2013.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):ISTE Ltd/John Wiley and Sons Inc
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2013.

The Physical Object

Description:xvi, 275 pages ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781848214385, 1848214383
oclc:ocn822214899
LC Classification:T174.7
Dewey Decimal:620.5

Preface -- Acknowledgment -- Part I. Concepts, discoveries and the rapid development of nanotechnologies -- Nanotechnologies in context: Social and scientific awareness of the impact of nanotechnologies -- 1.1 Feynman, the visionary -- 1.2. Nanotechnologies and their definition -- 1.3. The consideration of nanotechnologies by scientific organizations -- 1.4. References -- The rapid expansion of nanotechnology. New ways of observing the infinitesimal and the discovery of carbonaceous nanomaterials with unusual properties.

2.1. Improving tools for observing the infinitesimal -- 2.1.1. Transmission Electron microscopes (TEM) -- 2.1.2. Scanning Electron Microscopes (SEM) -- 2.1.3. Near-field microscopes -- 2.2. The discovery of new carbonaceous nanomaterials -- 2.2.1. Some basic concepts relative to the electronic structure of carbon and to the bonding rules between carbon atoms -- 2.2.2. The fullerenes or graphite sheets rolled into a ball -- 2.2.3. Carbon Nanotubes (CNT): tubes of graphite sheets -- 2.2.4. Graphene or graphite "sheets" -- 2.2.5. Link between conjugated carbonaceous nanomaterials -- 2.3. Conclusions -- 2.4. References -- Nano- materials in all their forms. New prope…