Marc Monthioux

Advanced Industrial Carbon Technology offers a comprehensive overview of modern carbon materials and manufacturing technologies that are highly relevant to industry in the 21st century. It covers detailed preparation methods for various carbon materials, including graphite electrodes, isotropic graphite, non-graphitizable carbon, carbon nanomaterials, and notably, carbon fibers and their composites. It also offers specifications, comparisons, and applications of commercially available carbon materials from leading producers. Emphasis is placed on raw materials, synthesis processes, and necessary modifications to achieve superior quality carbon products. Drawing on extensive academic and industrial experience, the authors share their practical insights, solutions, and contributions to both research-oriented and industrial carbon technologies, providing readers with real-world applications and examples that highlight key concepts in effective technology transfer from academia to industry. This resource serves as a complete guide for beginners and advanced students, scholars, and industry professionals working with technologically significant carbon materials.

Meta-Nanotubes are a new generation of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) which result from the chemical transformation of regular CNTs and their subsequent combination with foreign materials (atoms, molecules, chemical groups, nanocrystals) by various ways such as functionalisation, doping, filling, and substitution. These new nanomaterials exhibit enhanced or new properties, such as reactivity, solubility, and magnetism, which pristine CNTs do not possess. Their many applications include electronic and optoelectronic devices, chemical and biosensors, solar cells, drug delivery, and reinforced glasses and ceramics. Carbon Meta-Nanotubes: Synthesis, Properties and Applications discusses these third generation carbon nanotubes and the unique characteristics they possess. Beginning with a general overview of the subject, this book covers the five main categories of meta-nanotubes, namely: Doped Carbon NanotubesFunctionalised Carbon NanotubesDecorated or Coated Carbon NanotubesFilled Carbon NanotubesHeterogeneous Nanotubes Providing unparalleled coverage of these third generation or meta-nanotubes, and possibilities for future development, this book is essential for anyone working on carbon nanotubes.