2D and 3D Graphene Nanocomposites Fundamentals, Design, and Devices

In recent decades, graphene composites have received considerable attention due to their unique structural features and extraordinary properties. 2D and 3D graphene hybrid structures are widely used in memory, microelectronic, and optoelectronic devices; energy- and power-density supercapacitors; light-emitting diodes; and sensors, batteries, and solar cells. This book covers the fundamental properties of the latest graphene-based 2D and 3D composite materials.

The book is a result of the collective work of many highly qualified specialists in the field of experimental and theoretical research on graphene and its derivatives. It describes experimental methods for obtaining and characterizing samples of chemically modified graphene, details conceptual foundations of popular methods for computer modeling of graphene nanostructures, and compiles original computational techniques developed by the chapter authors. It discusses the potential application areas and modifications of graphene-based 2D and 3D composite materials and interprets the interesting physical effects discovered for the first time for graphene materials under consideration. The book is useful for graduate students and researchers as well as specialists in industrial engineering. It will also appeal to those involved in materials science, condensed matter physics, nanotechnology, physical electronics, nano- and optoelectronics.

Graphene and Graphene Nanomesh-Based Platforms for Sensing, Transparent Electrodes, and Catalysis Templates. Essential Properties of Fluorinated Graphene and Graphene Nanoribbons. Perspectives of new 2D-films based on covalently bonded graphene and carbon nanotubes for electronic applications. Control of the emission properties of pillared graphene. Application of 3D-porous graphene in emission electronics: new atomistic model and numerical estimations. The atomistic structure and electrical conductivity of pillared graphene films. Electro-conductive properties and applications of graphene-DNA nucleotide complex. Structural and electronic properties of a new multi-layer graphene/graphane material. New physical effects in graphene/C60 hybrid systems. Graphene/carbon nanotube hybrid material as an element base of optical nanodevices.

Olga E. Glukhova is head of the Chair of Radio Engineering and Electrodynamics at the Department of Physics, Saratov State University (SGU), Russia. She is also head of the Department of Mathematical Modeling at the Educational Research Institute of Nanostructures and Biosystems of SGU and senior researcher at the Laboratory of Biomedical Nanotechnology, Institute of Bionic Technologies and Engineering, I. M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Russia. She obtained her PhD in physics and mathematics in 1997 and Doctorate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (the highest scientific degree in Russia, habilitation) in 2009 from SGU. Prof. Glukhova’s research interests include molecular modeling of nanostructures and biosystems, condensed matter physics, materials science, carbon nanostructures (fullerenes, nanotubes, graphene, graphane), nanoelectronics, mechanics of nanostructures, quantum transport, photovoltaics and optoelectronics, biophysics, and structural chemistry.