Carbon Nanotubes and Related Structures: New Materials for the Twenty-first Century

1. Introduction 2. Synthesis 3. Structure 4. The physics of nanotubes 5. Nano-capsules and nano-test-tubes 6. The ultimate carbon fibre? 7. Curved crystals, inorganic fullerenes and nanorods 8. Carbon onions and spheroidal carbon 9. Future directions Index.

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