Handbook of Functionalized Carbon Nanostructures: From Synthesis Methods to Applications

This book highlights all newly reported carbon nanostructures including graphene and its derivatives, carbon nanotubes, metal organic frameworks, fullerenes, nanorods, nanospheres, nano onions, porous nanoparticles, nanohorns, nanofibers and nanoribbons, nanodiamonds, graphitic carbon nitrides, carbon aerogels and hydrogels, graphdiyne and graphenylene. It presents the historical development of carbon nanostructures technologies, different types and classifications, and different fabrication and functionalization techniques, including outer/inner surface functionalization and covalent and noncovalent functionalization. This Handbook discusses the unique properties of functionalized carbon nanostructures that can be obtained by modifying their structures, composition, and surface. It gives the reader an in-depth look at the current achievements of research and practice while pointing you ahead to new possibilities in functionalizing and using carbon nanomaterials. Finally, it covers the various applications of functionalized carbon nanostructures including adsorbents, additives, active materials in energy accumulating systems (batteries, hydrogen storage systems, and supercapacitors), filtering media, catalysts or supports for catalysts, sensors or substrates for sensors, additives for polymers, ceramic composites, metal and carbon alloys, glasses, digital textiles, and composite materials.

Ahmed Barhoum is the Head of the Nanostruc Research Group, Chemistry Department at Helwan University (Egypt). He leads an interdisciplinary research group in the synthesis of nanoparticles, imprinted polymers, nanofibers, and thin films for catalysis, drug delivery, and electrochemical biosensing. He obtained his PhD and postdoc-fellow in Chemical Sciences from the Department of Materials and Chemistry (MACH), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium). He is currently working at the School of Chemical Sciences (SCS), and a member of the National Centre for Sensor Research (NCSR), Fraunhofer Project Centre (FPC), and Nano Research Facility (NRF) at Dublin City University (Ireland). He has received several scientific awards and prizes for his academic excellence: Helwan University Prizes (2020 & 2019), Irish Research Council (2020), Chinese Academy of Science Fellowship (China, 2019), Institut français d’Égypte Fellowships (France, 2018 & 2020), Research Foundation Flanders Fellowships (Belgium, 2015 & 2016), Medastar Erasmus Mundus (Belgium, 2012), Welcome Erasmus Mundus (Italy, 2012), Gold Medal from Egyptian Syndicate of Scientific Professions (2007), Gold Medal from Helwan University (2007), and many more. He also serves as an expert evaluator for the National Science Centre (Poland), Czech Science Foundation (Russia), Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF, Switzerland), and Innovators Support Fund (ISF, Egypt) and examiner for international student’s work (Egypt, India, Australia, etc). He is on the editorial board of Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, Frontiers in Nanotechnology, Nanomaterials, and Frontiers in Materials and editor of 12 handbooks published by Elsevier and Springer Nature. He has secured 18 research grants (PI/Co-PI of 10 funded projects and member of 8 projects) from Egypt (ASRT & STDF), China (CAS), Japan (JSPS), USA (NSF & US-Aid), Belgium (SIM & FWO), Germany (AGYA), France (Imhotep), among others. He has co-authored 150 papers and published in top-tier journals, including Journal of Materials Chemistry A, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Applied Materials Today, Nanoscale, Carbohydrate Polymers, Materials Science and Engineering: C, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, many of them highlighted in Research Highlights, News, Journal Cover Articles. His Handbook ＂Emerging Applications of Nanoparticles, Elsevier, has been featured on CNN Forbes, and Inc, Top Best Nanostructures Books of All the Time.

Kalim Deshmukh is presently working as a senior researcher at the New Technologies-Research Centre, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic. He has over 17 years of research experience in the field of synthesis, characterizations and investigations of structure-property relationship of a wide variety of polymeric materials, polymer blends and nanocomposites for various technological applications. His research interest is mainly focussed on the synthesis, characterization and property investigations of polymer nanocomposites reinforced with different nanofillers including nanoparticles and carbon allotropes such as carbon black, carbon nanotubes, graphene, graphene oxide, graphene nanoplatelets and graphene quantum dots for potential electronic applications. He has over 95 research publications in peer-reviewed journals and 30 book chapters (h-index = 33; >3700 citations) with renowned international publications including the Royal Society of Chemistry, Elsevier, Springer and Taylor & Francis. In addition, he has co-edited two books on the topics ＂3D and 4D Printing of Polymer Nanocomposite Materials: Processes, Applications and Challenges＂ and ＂MXene and their Composites: Synthesis, Properties and Potential Applications＂ for Elsevier. Presently, he is editing three books for Elsevier on the topics ＂Biodegradable and Biocompatible Polymer nanocomposites: Processing, Characterizations and Applications＂, ＂Functionalized Nanofibers: Synthesis and Industrial Applications＂, and ＂Advanced Fluoropolymer Nanocomposites: Fabrication, Processing, Characterizations and Applications,＂ two books for Wiley-VCH on the topic ＂Nanotechnology Based Additive Manufacturing: Product Design, Properties and Applications,＂ and ＂Nanostructured Materials for Energy Storage＂, and one book for Wiley-Scrivener on the topic ＂Two-Dimensional Nanostructures Based Polymer Nanocomposites: Processing, Properties and Applications＂. Moreover, he has actively participated and presented his research work in several international conferences and also he has been serving as a reviewer for over 60 reputed international journals.