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Handbook of Graphene comprises 8 volumes:

Volume 1: Growth, Synthesis, and Functionalization
Edited by Edvige Celasco and Alexander Chaika
ISBN 978-1-119-46855-4

Volume 2: Physics, Chemistry, and Biology
Edited by Tobias Stauber
ISBN 978-1-119-46959-9

Volume 3: Graphene-Like 2D Materials
Edited by Mei Zhang
ISBN 978-1-119-46965-0

Volume 4: Composites
Edited by Cengiz Ozkan
ISBN 978-1-119-46968-1

Volume 5: Energy, Healthcare, and Environmental Applications
Edited by Cengiz Ozkan and Umit Ozkan
ISBN 978-1-119-46971-1

Volume 6: Biosensors and Advanced Sensors
Edited by Barbara Palys
ISBN 978-1-119-46974-2

Volume 7: Biomaterials
Edited by Sulaiman Wadi Harun
ISBN 978-1-119-46977-3

Volume 8: Technology and Innovation
Edited by Sulaiman Wadi Harun
ISBN 978-1-119-46980-3

Handbook of Graphene

Volume 2: Physics, Chemistry, and Biology

 

 

 

 

Edited by

Tobias Stauber

Institute of Materials Science,

Spanish National Research Council,

Madrid, Spain

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Preface

When Andre Geim first presented the “Electric Field Effect in Planar Single-Layer Graphene” at the March meeting of the American Physical Society in 2005, the room was barely filled and his contributed talk of 10 minutes did not receive much attention. This rapidly changed with the observation of the half-integer quantum Hall effect by his and Philip Kim’s group in the same year, promoting graphene and its family of other two-dimensional van der Waals materials to one of the most active current research areas in physics, chemistry, and also biology/medicine. After more than 10 years of worldwide research activity, the Handbook of Graphene, Volume 2, which is dedicated to selected topics in physics, chemistry, and biology, attempts to give an overview of the multitude of different research directions that are currently being taken at the international level.

Pristine graphene is nominally a semimetal, but in practice its electronic properties and structure are often modified, as examined in Chapters 2, 3, and 11. These changes can be due to topological defects (see Chapter 1), chemical adsorption (see Chapter 7), isolated vacancies (see Chapter 12), strain (see Chapter 8), or by confined geometries/nanoribbons (see Chapter 5). Electron–electron interaction can also modify graphene’s properties, as outlined in Chapters 4 and 14, which focus on the Fermi velocity renormalization and optical response as well as the magnetotransport in the extreme quantum limit, respectively. Furthermore, graphene or other two-dimensional structures often need to be described as membrane, as described in Chapters 6, 9, 17, and 18.

Among the possible applications, optoelectronic devices are arguably among the most likely ones, as reviewed and analyzed in Chapters 19 and 13 respectively. Graphene can also host highly confined surface plasmon polaritons with low losses, whose properties are discussed in Chapters 15 and 16. Finally, the use of graphene for the detection of biomolecules as well as tissue engineering and regenerative medicine are described in Chapters 10 and 20 respectively.

Science is an international endeavor that needs the interconnectedness and stimuli of a large scientific community. Graphene has managed to attract the interest of numerous researchers from all over the world, which can nicely be exemplified by looking at the various contributors to this book, from countries ranging from Taiwan to India, from Nigeria to Ukraine, from Egypt to the United States, from Iran to Canada, from Korea to Poland, from Russia to France, and from Greece to Spain. May this Handbook of Graphene, Volume 2, help to further increase the connection between scientists from different countries and engage them in the common goal to better understand and exploit the fascinating properties of the ever-growing graphene family.

In conclusion, I would like to thank all the authors whose expertise in their respective fields has contributed to this book and express my sincere appreciation to the International Association of Advanced Materials.

Tobias Stauber

Madrid, Spain

February 1, 2019