Making and exploiting fullerenes, graphene, and carbon nanotubes. Preface. Series 'Topics in current chemistry' Vol. 348

Carbon nanostructures, or nanocarbons (CNSs), i.e. the low-dimensional nanomaterials that comprise 0D fullerenes, 1D nanotubes and 2D graphene, have emerged over the last two decades in the field of new molecular materials for their unique structural and electronic properties, prompting a huge interest worldwide both from the viewpoint of fundamental research and for their application in molecular electronics, materials science, energy storage and conversion, biomedicine, sensing and biosensing. Because of the several and diverse technological applications so far proposed, and of the many more expected in the near future, the present volume is addressed to researchers from several different areas: chemistry and materials chemistry, nanotech- nology, medicine and industrial research.