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RESEARCH PRODUCT
Engineering of nanostructured carbon materials with electron or ion beams.
Arkady V. KrasheninnikovArkady V. KrasheninnikovFlorian BanhartFlorian Banhartsubject
NanostructureMaterials scienceMechanical EngineeringNanostructured materialschemistry.chemical_elementNanotechnology02 engineering and technologyGeneral ChemistryElectronNanoengineering010402 general chemistry021001 nanoscience & nanotechnologyCondensed Matter Physics01 natural sciences0104 chemical sciencesIonchemistryMechanics of MaterialsNanostructured carbonGeneral Materials ScienceIrradiation0210 nano-technologyCarbondescription
Irradiating solids with energetic particles is usually thought to introduce disorder, normally an undesirable phenomenon. But recent experiments on electron or ion irradiation of various nanostructures demonstrate that it can have beneficial effects and that electron or ion beams may be used to tailor the structure and properties of nanosystems with high precision. Moreover, in many cases irradiation can lead to self-organization or self-assembly in nanostructures. In this review we survey recent advances in the rapidly evolving area of irradiation effects in nanostructured materials, with particular emphasis on carbon systems because of their technological importance and the unique ability of graphitic networks to reconstruct under irradiation. We dwell not only on the physics behind irradiation of nanostructures but also on the technical applicability of irradiation for nanoengineering of carbon and other systems.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007-10-02 | Nature materials |