Note: Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Preface to the Third Edition -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Dimensionality -- 1.2 Approaching One-Dimensionality from Outside and from Inside -- 1.3 Dimensionality of Carbon Solids -- 1.3.1 Three-Dimensional Carbon: Diamond -- 1.3.2 Two-Dimensional Carbon: Graphite -- 1.3.3 One-Dimensional Carbon: Cumulene, Polycarbyne, Polyene -- 1.3.4 Zero-Dimensional Carbon: Fullerene -- 1.3.5 What about Something in between? -- 1.4 Peculiarities of One-Dimensional Systems -- References -- Chapter 2 One-Dimensional Substances -- 2.1 A15 Compounds -- 2.2 Krogmann Salts -- 2.3 Alchemists' Gold -- 2.4 Bechgaard Salts and Other Charge Transfer Compounds -- 2.5 Polysulfurnitride -- 2.6 Phthalocyanines and Other Macrocycles -- 2.7 Transition Metal Chalcogenides and Halides -- 2.8 Conducting Polymers -- 2.9 Halogen-Bridged Mixed-Valence Transition Metal Complexes -- 2.10 Miscellaneous -- 2.10.1 Poly-deckers -- 2.10.2 Polycarbenes -- 2.11 Isolated Nanowires -- 2.11.1 Templates and Filled Pores -- 2.11.2 Asymmetric Growth Using Catalysts -- 2.11.3 Carbon Nanotubes -- 2.11.4 Inorganic Semiconductor Quantum Wires -- 2.11.5 Metal Nanowires -- 2.12 Summary -- References -- Chapter 3 One-Dimensional Solid-State Physics -- 3.1 Crystal Lattice and Translation Symmetry -- 3.1.1 Classifying the Lattice -- 3.1.2 Using a Coordinate System -- 3.1.3 The One-Dimensional Lattice -- 3.1.4 Carbon Nanotubes as One-Dimensional Lattices -- 3.2 Reciprocal Lattice, Reciprocal Space -- 3.2.1 Describing Objects Using Momentum and Energy -- 3.2.2 Constructing the Reciprocal Lattice -- 3.2.3 Applying This to One Dimension -- 3.3 The Dynamic Crystal and Dispersion Relations -- 3.3.1 Crystal Vibrations and Phonons -- 3.3.2 Quantum Considerations with Phonons. , 3.3.3 Counting Phonons -- 3.4 Phonons and Electrons Are Different -- 3.4.1 Electron Waves -- 3.4.2 Electron Statistics -- 3.4.3 The Fermi Surface -- 3.4.4 The Free Electron Model -- 3.4.5 Nearly Free Electron Model -- Energy Bands, Energy Gap, and Density of States -- 3.4.6 The Molecular Orbital Approach -- 3.4.7 Returning to Carbon Nanotubes -- 3.5 Summary -- References -- Chapter 4 Electron-Phonon Coupling and the Peierls Transition -- 4.1 The Peierls Distortion -- 4.2 Phonon Softening and the Kohn Anomaly -- 4.3 Fermi Surface Warping -- 4.4 Beyond Electron-Phonon Coupling -- References -- Chapter 5 Conducting Polymers: Solitons and Polarons -- 5.1 General Remarks -- 5.2 Conjugated Double Bonds -- 5.3 A Molecular Picture -- 5.3.1 Bonding and Antibonding States -- 5.3.2 The Polyenes -- 5.3.3 Translating to Bloch's Theorem -- 5.4 Conjugational Defects -- 5.5 Solitons -- 5.6 Generation of Solitons -- 5.7 Nondegenerate Ground-State Polymers: Polarons -- 5.8 Fractional Charges -- 5.9 Soliton Lifetime -- References -- Chapter 6 Conducting Polymers: Conductivity -- 6.1 General Remarks on Conductivity -- 6.2 Measuring Conductivities -- 6.2.1 Simple Conductivity -- 6.2.2 Conductivity in a Magnetic Field -- 6.2.3 Conductivity of Small Particles -- 6.2.4 Conductivity of High-Impedance Samples -- 6.2.5 Conductivity Measurements without Contacts -- 6.2.6 Thermoelectric Power - the Seebeck Effect -- 6.3 Conductivity in One Dimension: Localization -- 6.4 Conductivity and Solitons -- 6.5 Experimental Data -- 6.6 Hopping Conductivity: Variable Range Hopping vs. Fluctuation-Assisted Tunneling -- 6.7 Conductivity of Highly Conducting Polymers -- 6.8 Magnetoresistance -- References -- Chapter 7 Superconductivity -- 7.1 Basic Phenomena -- 7.2 Measuring Superconductivity -- 7.3 Applications of Superconductivity -- 7.4 Superconductivity and Dimensionality. , 7.5 Organic Superconductors -- 7.5.1 One-Dimensional Organic Superconductors -- 7.5.2 Two-Dimensional Organic Superconductors -- 7.5.3 Three-Dimensional Organic Superconductors -- 7.6 Future Prospects -- References -- Chapter 8 Charge Density Waves -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Coulomb Interaction, 4kF Charge Density Waves, Spin Peierls Waves, Spin Density Waves -- 8.3 Phonon Dispersion Relation, Phase and Amplitude Mode in Charge Density Wave Excitations -- 8.4 Electronic Structure, Peierls-Fröhlich Mechanism of Superconductivity -- 8.5 Pinning, Commensurability, Solitons -- 8.6 Field-Induced Spin Density Waves and the Quantized Hall Effect -- References -- Chapter 9 Molecular-Scale Electronics -- 9.1 Miniaturization -- 9.2 Information in Molecular Electronics -- 9.3 Early and Radical Concepts -- 9.3.1 Soliton Switching -- 9.3.2 Molecular Rectifiers -- 9.3.3 Molecular Shift Register -- 9.3.4 Molecular Cellular Automata -- 9.4 Carbon Nanotubes -- References -- Chapter 10 Molecular Materials for Electronics -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Switching Molecular Devices -- 10.2.1 Photoabsorption Switching -- 10.2.2 Rectifying Langmuir-Blodgett Layers -- 10.3 Organic Light-Emitting Devices -- 10.3.1 Fundamentals of OLEDs -- 10.3.2 Materials for OLEDs -- 10.3.3 Device Designs for OLEDs -- 10.3.4 Performance and Outlooks -- 10.3.5 Field-Induced Organic Emitters -- 10.3.6 Organic Lasers and Organic Light-Emitting Transistors -- 10.4 Solar Cells -- 10.5 Organic Field Effect Transistors -- 10.6 Organic Thermoelectrics -- 10.7 Summary -- References -- Chapter 11 Even More Applications -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Superconductivity and High Conductivity -- 11.3 Electromagnetic Shielding -- 11.4 Field Smoothening in Cables -- 11.5 Capacitors -- 11.6 Through-Hole Electroplating -- 11.7 Loudspeakers -- 11.8 Antistatic Protective Bags. , 11.9 Other Electrostatic Dissipation Applications -- 11.10 Conducting Polymers for Welding of Plastics -- 11.11 Polymer Batteries -- 11.12 Electrochemical Polymer Actuators -- 11.13 Electrochromic Displays, Smart Windows, and Transparent Conducting Films -- 11.14 Electrochemical Sensors -- 11.15 Gas-Separating Membranes -- 11.16 Hydrogen Storage -- 11.17 Corrosion Protection -- 11.18 Holographic Storage and Holographic Computing -- 11.19 Biocomputing -- 11.20 Outlook -- References -- Chapter 12 Finally -- Reference -- Glossary and Acronyms -- Index -- EULA.