Diamondoid Molecules: With Applications in Biomedicine, Materials Science, Nanotechnology & Petroleum Science

“This book gives the readership an excellent science and technology background about the nature of diamondoids, their molecular characteristics and recent achievements made in characterizing them through ab initio methods and many other methods. This book reports results of numerous investigations into properties of diamondoids and derivatives opto-electronic properties. This will certainly motivate further investigations along this line.”– Professor Guo Ping Zhang, Indiana State University, USA

“The many interesting and well organized figures and graphs in this book are both impressive and educational. I have rarely seen a scientific book with such well illustrated data and information. This is a book for all students of science and engineering who may want to explore and research molecular building blocks which have a highly promising future.”– Dr Veera Mallu Boddu, US Army Engineer Research and Developement Center, Illinois, USA

“This well written and well organized book with many interesting figures, graphs and tables will be a valuable resource for the engineering and scientific community. Bioengineers, materials science majors and students of nanotechnology would also find the related sections of this book quite useful for their diamondoids studies.”– Dr Alireza Bahadori, Southern Cross University, Australia

“The contents of the book are quite educational for newcomers to the field of diamondoids and it is very thorough reference for those who are already involved in research and applications of diamondoids. The book is nicely divided into seven chapters and a comprehensive glossary of terms, equations and formulas related to diamondoids.” —Emeritus Prof. Dabir S. Viswanath, University of Missouri

“I would like to strongly recommend this book to students and researchers in nanoscience and nanotechnology. This book gives the readership an excellent science and technology background about the nature of diamondoids. The authors have rich experience in this field and have shown in this book that the ab initio calculations are useful for molecular property predictions of diamondoids and their derivatives.” —Prof. Guoping Zhang, Indiana State University

“Diamondoid Molecules opens a door for newcomers, even in industry and government, and for seasoned researchers who want to explore new opportunities in other areas of the research. I strongly recommended the book to researchers and students in all the relevant fields.” — Physics Today

“Diamondoid Molecules is a thorough presentation of current and future applications of diamondoids. Every chapter is excellently illustrated with plenty of clearly designed figures and graphs and well-organized tables. The book is an excellent introduction to theoretical and technological aspects behind diamondoids’ chemistry, their molecular structure and physical properties.” — Journal of Nanophotonics

“I was impressed by this work, because it showed me how many useful properties and possible applications diamondoid molecules possess that can be beneficial to my field of research. This is a highly educational and informative book, which I recommend to all students and researchers of physics, chemistry, nanomedicine, nanotechnology and materials science.” —Professor Renat Letfullin, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Indiana, USA

Diamondoids are cage-like, ultra stable, saturated ringed hydrocarbons, which have a diamond-like structure consisting of a number of six-member carbon rings fused together. Adamantane is the cage compound prototype and the simplest diamondoid molecule. Diamondoids Molecules aims to present these fascinating substances in a novel fashion. The more intriguing facets of diamondoid molecules are comprehensively exposed and discussed, bringing state-of-the-art information to the reader, along with the history, fundamentals and perspectives of diamondoid science and technology.

This groundbreaking book, especially devoted to diamondoid molecules, is of critical importance to the global techno-scientific community, and will be of great interest in many research fields such as chemistry, physics, material science, geology, and biological sciences. Moreover, it will attract readers from industrial, government and environmental agencies as well as scholars.