First single-authored book on carbon nanotubes, one of the most exciting areas in materials chemistry.

1. Introduction; 2. Synthesis; 3. Structure; 4. The physics of nanotubes; 5. Nano-capsules and nano-test-tubes; 6. The ultimate carbon fibre?; 7. Curved crystals, inorganic fullerenes and nanorods; 8. Carbon onions and spheroidal carbon; 9. Future directions; Index.

Peter Harris teaches English at a high school and is completing a PhD in the history of the First World War.