This book covers all the most important areas of nanotube research, as well as discussing related structures such as carbon naoparticles and ‘inorganic fullerenes’.
This is the first single-author book on carbon nanotubes. It will be of interest to chemists, physicists, material scientists and engineers working on carbon material and fullerenes from both academic and industrial backgrouds.

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1 Introdcution
1.1 The discovery of fullerence-related carbon nanotubes
1.2 Chanracteristics of multiwalled nanotubes
1.3 Single-walled nanotubes
1.4 Pre-1991 evidence for carbon nanotubes
1.5 Nantube research
1.6 Organisation of the book
References
2 Synthesis: Preparation methods, growth mechanisms and processing techniques
2.1 Producion of multiwalled nanotubes: non-catalytic methods
2.2 Experiments on the heat treatment of fullerene soot
2.3 Catalytically produced multiwalled nanotubes
2.4 Nanotubes on TEM support grids: a work fo warning
2.5 Syngle-walled nanotubes
2.6 Theories of nanotube growth
2.7 purification of multiwalled tubes
2.8 Purificaion of single-walled tubes
2.9 Alignment of nanotube sqmples
2.10 Legth control of carbon nanotubes
2.11 Discussion
References
3 Structure
3.1 Classificaion of tubular biological structures
3.2 Bonding in carbon material
3.3 The structure of carbon nanotubes: theoretical discussion
3.4 The physical stability of carbon nanotubes
3.5 Experimental studies of nanotube structure: multiwalled nanotubes
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4 The physics of nanotubes
5 Nanocapsules and nanotest-tubes
6 The ultimate carbon fibre? the mechanical properties of carbon nanotubes
7 Curved crystals, inorganic fullerenes and nanorods
8 Carbon onions and spheroidal carbon
9 Future directions
Name index
Subject index