Enhanced Carbon-Based Materials and Their Applications

An authoritative and robust overview of the synthesis, characterization, and application of carbon-based materials

In Enhanced Carbon-Based Materials and Their Applications, a team of distinguished researchers delivers a timely and carefully referenced overview of carbon-based materials and their applications. Following a summary of carbon-based materials and their synthesis methods, the authors move on to highlight advanced topics regarding enhanced carbon-based materials and their applications.

Discussions of the discovery of memristor-based memory, substrate options, and the effect of electrodes materials are accompanied by a review of the developments in carbonous materials, an explanation of the working principle of thermoelectric energy harvesting, and the applications of carbon-enhanced piezoelectric materials, sensors, optoelectronic devices, actuators, and display applications as well.

The book concludes with a presentation of anticipated future prospects and challenges in this area, including those obstacles that must be addressed before the large-scale production of carbon-based products can begin. Readers will also find:

• A thorough introduction to carbon-based nanomaterials, including their synthesis and characterization
• Comprehensive explorations of functional carbon-based nanomaterials and sensor applications, as well as fabrication techniques of resistive switching carbon-based memories
• Practical discussions of carbonous-based optoelectronic devices, thermoelectric energy harvesters, and their applications
• Fulsome treatments of carbon-enhanced piezoelectric materials and their applications

Perfect for a multi-disciplinary audience in the broader scientific and industrial communities, Enhanced Carbon-Based Materials and Their Applications will also earn a place in the libraries of researchers and industry professionals with an interest in the synthesis and characterization of carbon nanomaterials. CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 2: CARBON BASED NANOSTRUCTURES
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Synthesis of carbon-based nanostructures
2.3 Characterization techniques
2.4. Summary

CHAPTER 3: FUNCTIONAL CARBON-BASED MATERIALS and APPLICATIONS
3.1 Introduction and background of carbon-based sensors
3.2 Carbon material functionalization, hybridization and sensing properties
3.3 Plasma surface modification of graphene
3.4 Electronic and chemical properties of functionalized graphene
3.5 Applications

CHAPTER 4: RESISTIVE SWITCHING CARBON-BASED MEMORIES
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Fabrication method
4.3 Electrical characterization and applications

CHAPTER 5: CARBON-BASED OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES
5.1 Emerging carbon-based device concept
5.2 0, 1, and 2- Dimensional carbon-based materials in optoelectronic applications

CHAPTER 6: THERMOELECTRIC ENERGY HARVESTERS and APPLICATIONS
6.1 Carbon enhanced materials overview
6.2 Thermoelectric energy harvester overview
6.3 Fabrication
6.4 Applications

CHAPTER 7: PIEZOELECTRIC ENERGY HARVESTERS and APPLICATIONS
7.1. Introduction of piezoelectric energy harvester
7.2. Fabrication
7.3. Applications

CHAPTER 8: ACTUATORS BASED on the CARBON ENHANCED MATERIALS
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Nanostructured Carbon: Effective Tools for Carbon-Based Nanoactuators
8.3 Applications (Carbon Nanotube-Based Actuators, Graphene and Graphene Oxide Actuators, Fullerene-Based Actuators)
8.4 Challenges and Prospective of Actuators

CHAPTER 9: CARBON-BASED ANALOG and DIGITAL ELECTRONICS and CIRCUITS
9.1 Current development on Analog and Digital Electronics
9.2 Radio frequency circuits
9.3 Carbon nanotubes and graphene digital electronics

CHAPTER 10: CONCLUSIONS and FUTURE PERSPECTIVES

Poh Choon Ooi works as a research fellow/senior lecturer in the Institute of Microengineering and Nanoelectronics (IMEN), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia.

Mengying Xie is an Associate Professor in the College of Precision Instruments and Opto-electronics Engineering, Tianjin University, China.

Chang Fu Dee works as an Associate Professor in the Institute of Microengineering and Nanoelectronics, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia.

An authoritative and robust overview of the synthesis, characterization, and application of carbon-based materials

In Enhanced Carbon-Based Materials and Their Applications, a team of distinguished researchers delivers a timely and carefully referenced overview of carbon-based materials and their applications. Following a summary of carbon-based materials and their synthesis methods, the authors move on to highlight advanced topics regarding enhanced carbon-based materials and their applications.

Discussions of the discovery of memristor-based memory, substrate options, and the effect of electrodes materials are accompanied by a review of the developments in carbonous materials, an explanation of the working principle of thermoelectric energy harvesting, and the applications of carbon-enhanced piezoelectric materials, sensors, optoelectronic devices, actuators, and display applications as well.

The book concludes with a presentation of anticipated future prospects and challenges in this area, including those obstacles that must be addressed before the large-scale production of carbon-based products can begin. Readers will also find:

• A thorough introduction to carbon-based nanomaterials, including their synthesis and characterization
• Comprehensive explorations of functional carbon-based nanomaterials and sensor applications, as well as fabrication techniques of resistive switching carbon-based memories
• Practical discussions of carbonous-based optoelectronic devices, thermoelectric energy harvesters, and their applications
• Fulsome treatments of carbon-enhanced piezoelectric materials and their applications

Perfect for a multi-disciplinary audience in the broader scientific and industrial communities, Enhanced Carbon-Based Materials and Their Applications will also earn a place in the libraries of researchers and industry professionals with an interest in the synthesis and characterization of carbon nanomaterials.