Ultrananocrystalline Diamond: Synthesis, Properties, and Applications

Olga A. Shenderova

ISBN 10: 1455778109 / ISBN 13: 9781455778102

Published by William Andrew, 2011

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622 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.41 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ultrananocrystalline Diamond: Synthesis, Properties, and Applications
• Publisher: William Andrew
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1455778109
• ISBN 13: 9781455778102
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 1.03 kilograms

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Synopsis

Ultrananocrystalline Diamond: Syntheses, Properties, and Applications is a unique practical reference handbook that brings together the basic science of nanoscale carbon structures, particularly its diamond phase, with detailed information on nanodiamond synthesis, properties, and applications. Here you will learn about UNCD in its two forms, as a dispersed powder made by detonation techniques and as a chemical vapor deposited film. You will also learn about the superior mechanical, tribological, transport, electrochemical, and electron emission properties of UNCD for a wide range of applications including MEMS, NEMS, surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices, electrochemical sensors, coatings for field emission arrays, photonic and RF switching, biosensors, and neural prostheses, and more. This Everything about Ultra-nanocrystalline Diamond book with 16 chapters is written by leading experts worldwide. It is for everyone who researches carbon nanostructures, everyone who produces them, everyone who characterizes them, and everyone who builds devices using them.

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Key Features Include:
1. A chapter addressing UNCD in the Cosmos; importantly, nanodiamond appears to be a constituent of interstellar dust and influences the optical properties of interstellar space.

2. An up to date summary of synthetic production methods; importantly, the radically new chemical vapour deposition (CVD) for producing UNCD film and the obscure Russian detonation methods for producing UNCD powder.

3. An entire chapter on biological applications; as discovered in the 1990s, UNCD compounds have biological activity, making them useful both as biosensors and as therapeutic agents.

4. Summary of topics on material, method, purification, and applications of detonation nanodiamond published in Russian patents from the late 1980s to the middle 1990s, making them useful for those who are considering filing patent applications and need to have comprehensive references to “prior art.”