Rare Earths: Science, Technology, Production and Use Jacques Lucas, Pierre Lucas, Thierry Le Mercier, Alain Rollat, and
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raphene is a single layer of carbon and may be considered as one layer of the graphite structures. Nowadays, besides monolayer graphene, bi- or multilayer varieties are also well known. These two-dimensional objects curl up to form carbon nanotubes. Graphene and carbon nanotubes comprise a new class of materials that are scientifically and technologically of extreme importance. This book deals with solid-state physics applied to this class of materials, ranging, as mentioned in the subtitle, from “electronic structure to quantum transport.” The content and structure of this book make it necessary that the reader has an advanced knowledge of theoretical solid-state physics. The book is divided into seven chapters plus four chapters in the appendix. Each chapter starts with a short
introduction and ends with suggestions for further reading. Additionally, at the end of each chapter, typical for a textbook to be used in parallel to university lectures, problems are included. The book begins with a description of the electronic structure. Interestingly, the authors describe not only the “idealized” structure, but also the occurrence of lattice defects, pentagons, and heptagons, instead of hexagons, which are the basis of the graphene structure. The influence of these lattice defects and impurities on the electronic structure and transport properties is described in great detail. Unfortunately, these considerations were not extended to mechanical properties, as polymer composites with graphene or carbon nanotubes as filler show extremely promising mechanical properties. The
Rare Earths: Science, Technology, Production and Use Jacques Lucas, Pierre Lucas, Thierry Le Mercier, Alain Rollat, and William Davenport Elsevier, 2014 407 pages, $174.25 ISBN 978-0-444-62735-3
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are earths have been widely discussed in the popular press and at conferences because of their strategic importance, especially in clean energy technologies, but a reliable source of information that can raise the level of debates has been missing. This book fills the void. By a careful selection of topics, it meets its stated objective of describing the state of the art as of early 2014 on rare-earths occurrence, extraction, atomic structure, technology, applications, use, and recycling.
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The first two chapters give an overview of the importance of rare earths, and data on production, use, and price, as well as volatility. Ores containing bastnäsite, monazite, and xenotime minerals and cation adsorption clays are industrially important. The ways these are processed to obtain usable forms such as oxides and metals are described in chapters 3–7. A special feature is the number of flow sheets and photographs the authors have thoughtfully provided in addition to equations.
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majority of the book is devoted to quantum transport phenomena. These phenomena are treated in different systems, well ordered and disordered ones; doped and undoped graphene and carbon nanotubes; and, what is most i
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