Graphene: Carbon in Two Dimensions
"When a new exciting subject arises, there is always a drive to research it both deep and wide as fast as possible, generating large amount of thrillingly interesting, but often unstructured, data. At a certain moment, such processes call for their Carl Linnaeus, to structure, bring links and set boundaries for various experiments and theories. Often, this process itself can generate new connections and exciting ideas. The book of Mikhail Katsnelson is the first attempt of its kind for the field of graphene, and a very successful one. Starting from the basics, at student level, it guides the reader to the most important results in the field of graphene physics to date. It also manages to grasp the breadth of graphene research, connecting such topics as statistical mechanics of 2D membranes and strain generated gauge potential in graphene or chirality of the quasiparticles and topologically protected zero-energy states. This book is not only a brilliant systematic overview of the state-of-the-art in graphene research to date; it also offers a program of research for the next few years. Well, with the pace this area has been developing, I'm sure it will be done twice faster."Dr Kostya Novoselov, University of Manchester, co-recipient (together with Professor A. Geim) of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics"It is extremely well written and nicely produced, and it can warmly be recommended to all scientists working on graphene or coming to it from other fields."Peter V.E. McClintock, Contemporary Physics