Includes bibliographical references and index.

Carbon nanotubes and related structures : production and formation / Mark H. Rümmeli, Paola Ayala, and Thomas Pichler -- Theory of electronic and optical properties of DNA-SWNT hybrids / Slava V. Rotkin and Stacy E. Snyder -- Electrochemistry / Matteo Iurlo, Massimo Marcaccio, and Francesco Paolucci -- Photophysics / Tobias Hertel -- Noncovalent functionalization of carbon nanotubes / Ma Ángeles Herranz and Nazario Martín -- Covalent functionalization of carbon nanotubes / Frank Hauke and Andreas Hirsch -- Carbon-based nanomaterial applications in biomedicine / Prabhpreet Singh, Tatiana Da Ros, Kostas Kostarelos, Maurizio Prato, and Alberto Bianco -- Ground and excited state charge transfer and its implications / Vito Sgobba and Dirk M. Guldi -- Photovoltaic devices based on carbon nanotubes and related structures / Emmanuel Kymakis -- Layer-by-layer assembly of multifunctional carbon nanotube thin films / Bong Sup Shim and Nicholas A. Kotov -- Carbon nanotubes for catalytic applications / Eva Castillejos and Philippe Serp -- Carbon nanotubes as containers / Thomas W. Chamberlain, Maria del Carmen Gimenez-Lopez, and Andrei N. Khlobystov -- Carbon nanohorn / Masako Yudasaka and Sumio Iijima -- Self-organization of nanographenes / Wojciech Pisula, Xinliang Feng, and Klaus Müllen -- Endohedrals / Lai Feng, Takeshi Akasaka, and Shigeru Nagase -- Carbon nanostructures : calculations of their energetics, thermodynamics, and stability / Zdenĕk Slanina, Filip Uhlík, Shyi-Long Lee, Takeshi Akasaka, and Shigeru Nagase.

"Carbon's special structures, such as diamond, graphite, and in particular fullerenes and nanotubes, have unique mechanical and electronic properties that have triggered a research boom over the past fifteen years. The resulting applications range from ultrahard films and super-tensile materials to the exceptionally minute functionalities found in transistors, sensors, nanocontainers, and biomedical applications." "Written by the most prominent experts and pioneers in the field, this ready reference combines fundamental research, recent breakthroughs and real-life applications in one well-organized treatise. As such, both newcomers and established researchers will find here a wide range of current methods for producing and characterizing carbon nanotubes using imaging as well as spectroscopic techniques."--BOOK JACKET.