本书是论述碳纳米管物理特性的一本难得的好书,自1998年初版以来,多次重印,深受读者的欢迎。该书从基本的物理与化学原理出发，详细地论述了碳纳米管的几何结构，电子结构，输运特性，声子和弹性特性等理论，还介绍了碳纳米管的合成、纯化、组合、填充、排列和掺杂等实验方法。书中有238篇参考文献，一个生成碳纳米管结构的计算机程序。
目次：碳材料；分子和固体中的紧束缚方法；单壁碳纳米管的结构；单壁碳纳米管的电子结构；碳纳米管的合成；碳纳米管的朗道能带；连接碳纳米管；碳纳米管的输运特性；碳纳米管的声子模式；碳纳米管的拉曼谱；碳纳米管的弹性特性。
读者对象：物理学、化学专业的教师、高年级大学生、研究生和科研人员。

1 Carbon Materials
1.1 History
1.2 Hybridization in A Carbon Atom
2 Tight Binding Calculation of Molecules and Solids
2.1 Tight Bin ding Method for a Crystalline Solid
2.2 Electronic Structure of Polyacetylene
2.3 Two-Dimensional Graphite
3 Structure of a Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube
3.1 Classificetion of carbon nanotubes
3.2 Chiral Vector:Ch
3.3 Translational Vector:T
3.4 Symmetry Vector:R
3.5 Unit Cells and Brillouin Zones
3.6 Group Theory of Carbon Nanotubes
3.7 Experimental evidence for nanotube structure
4 Electronic Structure of Single-Wall Nanotubes
4.1 One-electron dispersion reations
4.2 Density of States,Energy gap
4.3 Effects of Peierls distortion and nanotube curvature
5 Synthesis of Carbon Nanotues
5.1 Single-Wall Nanotube Synthesis
5.2 Laser Vaporization Synthesis Method
5.3 Arc Method of Synthesizing Carbon Nanotubes
5.4 Vapor Growth and Other Synthesis Methods
5.5 Purification
5.6 Nanotube Opening,Wetting,Filling and Alignment
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6 Landau Energy Bands of Carbon Nanotubes
7 Connecting Carbon Nanotubes
8 Transport Properties of Carbon Nanotubes
9 Phonon Modes of Carbon Nanotubes
10 Raman Spectra of Carbon Nanotubes
11 Elastic Properties of Carbon Nanotubes
References
Index