This review presents the state of the art in strain and ripple-induced effects on the electronic
and optical properties of graphene. It starts by providing the crystallographic description of …

Defects are usually seen as imperfections in materials that could significantly degrade their
performance. However, at the nanoscale, defects could be extremely useful since they could …

An overview of the various carbon structures with characteristic sizes in the nanoscale
region is presented, with special attention devoted to the structures and properties of …

The paper reviews the principles of interaction of energetic particles with solid carbon and
carbon nanostructures. The reader is first introduced to the basic mechanisms of radiation …

Fullerenes are carbon molecules that form polyhedral cages. Their bond structures are
exactly the planar cubic graphs that have only pentagon and hexagon faces. Strikingly, a …

The intershell and interlayer interaction (complexation) energies of C60 inside C240 (C60@
C240) and of graphene sheets are investigated by all-electron density functional theory …

Graphite is a layered material that is very flexible, in which each layer is able to curve in
order to form cages, nanotubes, nanocoils, nanocones, etc. In this paper, we demonstrate …

We present a new and general mechanism for inter-conversion of carbon structures via a
catalytic exchange process, which operates under conditions of Frenkel pair generation. The …

I. Introduction 42II. Carbons: Types, Classification, Precursors, and Preparation 45 A. Types
of Carbon Solids 45 B. Precursors 77 C. Manufacture of Porous Carbons: A Molecular …

The Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick model of two anisotropically interacting spins in a magnetic field
is proposed as a working substance of a quantum Otto engine to explore and exploit the …