this is often the second one quantity in a chain of books on chosen subject matters in Nanoscale technology and know-how in accordance with lectures given on the recognized INFN faculties of a similar identify. the purpose of this assortment is to supply a reference corpus of appropriate, introductory fabric to appropriate subfields, as they mature over the years, by way of collecting the considerably extended and edited models of educational lectures, given through the years via the world over recognized specialists. the current set of notes stems particularly from the participation and commitment of prestigious academics, corresponding to Andrzej Huczko, Nicola Pugno, Alexander Malesevic, Pasquale Onorato and Stefano Bellucci. All lectures have been for that reason rigorously edited and transformed, making an allowance for the large follow-up discussions. an academic lecture via Huczko et al. exhibits how various carbon and ceramic nanostructures (nanotubes, nanowires, nanofibres, nanorods, and nanoencapsulates) have specifically nice capability for bettering our knowing of the basic suggestions of the jobs of either dimensionality and dimension on actual fabric homes . Bellucci and Onorato offer an intensive and educational evaluate of the (quantum) shipping homes in carbon nanotubes, encompassing an outline of the digital constitution from graphene to single-wall nanotubes, in addition to a dialogue of experimental facts of superconductivity in carbon nanotubes and the corresponding theoretical interpretation. within the first contribution by means of Pugno, new rules on tips on how to layout futuristic self-cleaning, super-adhesive and releasable hierarchical clever fabrics are offered. He additionally studies the mechanical energy of such nanotubes and megacables, with an eye fixed to the visionary undertaking of a carbon nanotube-based ‘space elevator megacable’. In his moment contribution, Pugno outlines intimately the position at the fracture energy of thermodynamically unavoidable atomistic defects with assorted measurement and form, either numerically and theoretically, for nanotubes and nanotube bundles. targeting graphitic allotropes, the bankruptcy through Bellucci and Malesevic goals to offer a style of the common implications carbon nanostructures have on study and functions, ranging from an ancient evaluation, by way of a dialogue of the constitution and actual homes of carbon nanotubes and graphene, particularly within the context of the various various synthesis options shortly available.