Introduction to Graphene-Based Nanomaterials

Luis E. F. Foà Torres is a Researcher at the Argentine National Council for Science and Technology (CONICET) and an Adjoint Professor at the National University of Córdoba, Argentina, specialising in quantum transport with emphasis on inelastic effects and driven systems. Stephan Roche is an ICREA Research Professor at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), where he is Head of the Theoretical and Computational Nanoscience group, focusing on quantum transport phenomena in materials such as graphene. Jean-Christophe Charlier is a Professor of Physics at the University of Louvain, Belgium, whose interests include condensed matter physics and nanosciences. His main scientific expertise focuses on first-principles computer modelling for investigating carbon-based nanomaterials.

1. Introduction to carbon-based nanostructures; 2. Electronic properties of carbon-based nanostructures; 3. Quantum transport: general concepts; 4. Klein tunnelling and ballistic transport in graphene and related materials; 5. Quantum transport in disordered graphene-based materials; 6. Quantum transport beyond DC; 7. Ab initio and multiscale quantum transport in graphene-based materials; 8. Applications; Appendix A. Electronic structure calculations: the density functional theory; Appendix B. Electronic structure calculations: the many-body perturbation theory; Appendix C. Green's functions and ab initio quantum transport in the Landauer–Büttiker formalism; Appendix D. Recursion methods for computing DOS and wavepacket dynamics; Index.