Line Groups in Physics : Theory and Applications to Nanotubes and Polymers

Damnjanovic, M.; Milosevic, I.

ISBN 10: 3642111718 / ISBN 13: 9783642111716

Published by Springer, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Line Groups in Physics : Theory and Applications to Nanotubes and Polymers
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3642111718
• ISBN 13: 9783642111716
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Over last decades low-dimensional materials are in focus of physics and chemistry as well as of material and other natural sciences. Like Vitaly Ginzburg has foreseen 30 years ago, low dimensionality offers physical phenomena and properties unseen in three-dimensional world. To see how thin ?lms and monomolecular layers realize such a prediction it suf?ces only to observe intensity of research devoted to recently synthesized graphene. Still, quasi-one-dimensional compounds are over long period established as the origin of the most important and most interesting discoveries of material science and solid state physics. To mention only deoxyribonucleic acid, the most important molecule in nature, and diversity of nanotubes and nanowires, the cornerstones of the present and future nanotechnology. Line groups, describing symmetry of quasi-one-dimensional materials, offer the deepest insight to their characteristic properties. Underlying many of the laws, they are very useful, but far from simple. This book is intended to explain them, their properties, and their most common applications. In particular, it is important to understand that the line groups are much wider class of symmetries than the well-known rod groups. While the latter describe only translationally periodical objects, line groups include symmetries of incommensurate periodical structures.

About the Author

Milan M. Damnjanovic

Date of birth: 7 Septemer 1953

Citizenship: Serbia

Ivanka P. Milosevic

Date of birth: 28 December 1962

Citizenship: Serbia