Fundamentals of Carbon

Maher S. Amer, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Wright State University, in Dayton, Ohio. He is a USA academic who is recognized with the US Core Scholar status. He is also recognized in England as a former visiting Fellow at University of Cambridge; in Germany as a Humboldtian Scholar at Max-Planck Society, and in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as a visiting Professor at KAUST. He has over 20 years academic experience in carbon materials and more than a decade in nanotechnology and fullerene behavior.

• 1. INTRODUCTION 2. THE CARBON ATOM 3. CARBON ON THE MACRO-SCALE3.1. Diamond3.2. Graphite3.3. Carbon Foams 4. CARBON ON THE MICRO-SCALE4.1. PAN based Carbon Fibres4.2. Pitch Based Carbon Fibres4.3. Diamond-like-carbon (DLC) 5. CARBON ON THE SUB-MICRO-SCALE (NANO-FIBRES) 6. CARBON ON THE NANO-SCALE (FULLERENES)6.1. Zero-dimensional Fullerene: Spherical Fullerenes and related structures.6.2. One-dimensional Fullerenes: Cylindrical Nano tubes, SWCNT, DWCNT, and MWCNT6.3. Two-dimensional Fullerenes: Graphene; mono- and multi-layered structures.6.4. Hybrid structures : graphene, tube sandwiches, etc.6.5. Carbon Quantum Dots6.6. Entropic Effects 7. CARBON ON THE MOLECULAR SCALE7.1. Hydrocarbon gases7.2. Amino-acids, DNA and Proteins7.3. regulatory molecules in the human body: hormones Adrenaline etc. 8. FUTURE CHALLENGES