The data on diamond-like carbon nanoforms (the so-called diamondoids, diamond-like nanofibres, nanocrystallites, nanotubes, hyper-diamonds, numerous hybrid and carbon-carbon composite nanostructures containing sp3-carbon atoms in tetrahedral coordination) obtained by means of modern methods of computational quantum chemical theory and molecular dynamics are generalized and systematized. The peculiarities of atomic and electronic structure, chemical bonding, stability factors, physicochemical properties of diamond-like carbon nanoallotropes, as well as the prospects of their application in materials science are discussed.
The book is intended for specialists, postgraduates, undergraduates and senior students of Universities dealing with physicochemistry of carbon nanomaterials, solid state chemistry, quantum chemistry and computer materials science.
