Perspectives of Fullerene Nanotechnology
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: January 17, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780792371748
Subjects: Materials science; Science/Mathematics; Materials For Engineering; Technology; Technology & Industrial Arts; Tubes; Chemistry - Analytic; Chemistry - Organic; Material Science; Technology / Material Science; Carbon; Nanostructured materials
First sentence: In 1960 Roger Bacon, working for the National Carbon Company, a division of Union Carbide Corporation, reported, in a remarkably lucid and thorough account, his discovery of sub-micrometer diameter graphite whiskers grown in a d.c. carbon arc under high pressure (93 atm) of an inert gas [2].