10. Appendix

690 Appendix D
Review articles
L. Brus: Chemical Approaches to Semiconductor Nanocrystals. J. Phys. Chem.
Solids, 59, 459–465 (1998).
Y. N. Xia, P. D. Yang, Y. G. Sun, Y. Y. Wu, B. Mayers, B. Gates, Y. D. Yin, F.
Kim and H. Q. Yan: One-dimensional Nanostructures: Synthesis, Characterization,
and Applications. Adv. Materials 15, 353–389 (2003).
N. Wang, Y. Cai and R. Q. Zhang: Growth of nanowires. Materials Science &
Engineering R: 60, 1–51 (2008).
Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene
In earlier editions of this book carbon nanotubes, semiconducting as well as
(semi)-metallic, had already been mentioned (1.1.5) and some references
given. The field has reached an enormous development since the beginning
of the present century: according to the Web of Science nearly 35 000 articles
have appeared to date in source journals mentioning carbon nanotubes
either in the title or in the abstract. Single wall nanotubes can now be grown
readily and are available commercially. However, the control over chirality
of the tube, which determines the size of the bandgap, is lacking. A related
development which started around 2004 concerns single graphene sheets. For
symmetry reasons they are semimetallic, with Dirac-type massless electrons at
the Fermi energy. Nearly 3500 articles, cited to date (Dec. 2008) about 63000
times, have been published on graphene. While single graphene sheets can be
obtained by simple techniques, such as pealing, a well-controlled and reproducible
growth technique is still lacking. We give next a few recent references
on carbon nanotubes and graphene with the understanding that these are still
fast developing fields:
X. Fan, R. Buczko, A. A. Puretzky, D. B. Geohegan, J. Y. Howe, S. T. Pantelides,
S. J. Pennycock: Nucleation of Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes.
Phys. Rev. Letters 90, 145501 (2003).
M. Monthioux, Who should be given credit for Nanotubes? Carbon 44, 1621
(2006).
M. J. Height, J. B. Howard, J. W. Tester, J. B. V. Sande: Flame Synthesis of Carbon
Nanotubes. Carbon 42, 2295 (2004).
K. S. Novoselov, A. K. Geim, S. V. Morozov, D. Jiang, Y. Zhang, S. V. Dubonos,
I. V. Grigoreva and A. A. Firsov: Carbon Wonderland, Scientific American
298, 90 (2008).
K. S. Novoselov, A. K. Geim, S. V. Morozov, D. Jiang, M. I. Katsnelsov, S. V.
Dubonos, I. V. Grigoreva, S. V. Dubonos, and A. A. Firsov: Two–Dimensional
Gas of Massless Dirac Fermions in Graphene, Nature 438, 197 (2005).
General Reading
Jorio, A., Dresselhaus, M. S., Dresselhaus, G. (ed.): Carbon Nanotubes: advanced
topics in synthesis, structure, properties, and applications, Topics in
Applied Physics, Vol. 111 (Springer, New York, 2008).