Silicon Carbide Nanostructures: Fabrication, Structure, and Properties

It has been 10 years since the publication of the first edition of this monograph, and silicon carbide nanostructures have continued to be a booming field with more and more intriguing and important new developments. We have largely extended the contents of this book to reflect those newest advances as well as some impor-tant correlated points that had been missed in the first edition. We try our best to render this second edition still and even more self-contained. It covers the major areas of diverse silicon carbide nanostructures including zero-dimensional nanoparti-cles and quantum dots, one-dimensional nanowires and nanotubes, two-dimensional graphene-like monolayers and ultrathin silicon carbide, nanoporous structures, nanostructured films, etc. Topics include synthesis and fabrication approaches, microstructures, unique polytypes, various characteristics, and promising applica-tions, emphasizing the strong correlations between structures and properties, which are the permanent pursuing targets of natural science concerning all scale levels and all kinds of materials and structures existing in nature and in the cosmos. The section of point defects and spin dynamics is highly enlarged to reflect the booming advances in this field, especially the explorations of the applications of the SiC point defects in quantum information. More advances concerning impurities and luminescence as well as presolar SiC grains and explorations of their origins are included. In Chap. 4, we discuss more exciting and important advances toward better understanding the basic characteristics of SiC quantum dots. We add more sections involving prelimi-nary applications of SiC nanoparticles. There is now a section in Chap. 5 devoted to the description of more application potential of SiC nanowires such as microwave absorption and thermal management. The section of two-dimensional honeycomb-structured monolayers and ultrathin layers of SiC is highly enlarged in Chap. 6 to reflect the exciting experimental and theoretical breakthroughs in this important field. In Chap. 8, more interesting advances concerning the biological application potential of SiC nanostructures are summarized and discussed. © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer
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