Handbook of Graphene

After more than 10 years of worldwide research activity, the Handbook of Graphene, Volume 2, which is dedicated to selected topics in "Physics, Chemistry, and Biology," is attempting to give an overview on the multitude of different research directions that are currently performed on the international level.

Pristine graphene is nominally a semimetal, but in practice its electronic properties and structure are often modified as analyzed in Chapters 2, 3, and 11. These changes can be due to topological defects (see Chapter 1), chemical adsorption (see Chapter 7), isolated vacancies (see Chapter 12), strain (see Chapter 8), or by confined geometries/nanoribbons (see Chapter 5). Electron-electron interaction can also modify graphene's properties as outlined in Chapters 4 and 14, focusing on the Fermi velocity renormalization and optical response as well as on the magnetotransport in the extreme quantum limit, respectively. Furthermore, graphene or other two-dimensional structures often need to be described as membrane as described in Chapters 6, 9, 17, and 18. Among possible applications, arguably optoelectronic devices are among the most likely ones as reviewed and analyzed in Chapters 19 and 13, respectively. Graphene can also host highly confined surface plasmon-polaritons with low losses and their properties are discussed in Chapters 15 and 16. Finally, graphene's use for the detection of biomolecules as well as tissue engineering and regenerative medicine are described in Chapters 10 and 20, respectively.