Book Description:
A novel way of arranging the atomic structure of a substance so that it can be made thousands of times stronger than in its native state. Often used to make duranium a further ten thousand times stronger. Thus, a lump of duranium can be made over ten million times stronger than the equivalent block of titanium. A one dimensional fullerene (a convex cage of atoms with only hexagonal and/ or pentagonal faces) with a cylindrical shape. Carbon nanotubes discovered in 1991 by Sumio Iijima resemble rolled up graphite, although they can not really be made that way. Depending on the direction that the tubes appear to have been rolled (quantified by the 'chiral vector'), they are known to act as conductors or semiconductors. Nanotubes are a proving to be useful as molecular components for nanotechnology. This new book assembles and presents new and important research in the field.

Table of Contents:
Preface;
1. Plasma-CVD Growth of Carbon Nano-tubes on Metal Substrates, pp.1-37;
(Wilfried Wunderlich, Nagoya University, Japan and Masaki Tanemura, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan)
2. Compelling Evidence of High-Temperature Superconductivity in Carbon Nanotubes, pp.39-75;
(Guo-meng Zhao, California State University at Los Angeles, CA)
3. Structure, Symmetries, Mechanics and Motors of Carbon Nanotubes, pp.77-92;
(Z.C. Tu and Z.C. Ou-Yang, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
4. Silica Matrices in Synthesis of Carbon Nanotubes, pp.93-110;
(Katok K.V. and Tertykh V.A., Institute of Surface Chemistry of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine)
5. Collective Electronic Excitations in Carbon Nanotubes, pp.111-137; (William Que and Ricardo Perez, Ryerson University, Ontario)
6. Near-field Electrodynamics of Atomically Doped Carbon Nanotubes, pp.139-183;
(Igor V. Bondarev and Philippe Lambin, Belarusian State University, Belarus)
7. Carbon Nanotubes in Parallel Magnetic Field, pp.185-215;
(Magdalena Marga and Marek Szopa, University of Silesia, Poland)
8. Plasmons in Carbon Nanotubes, pp.217-253;
(M.M. Brzhezinskaya, Florida International University, FL and E.M. Baitinger, Physics Department of Chelyabinsk State Pedagogical University, Russia)
Index.