“Torres, Roche, and Charlier have written a very attractive book on graphene-based materials that takes a reader or student with no prior exposure to this topic to a level where he or she can carry out research at a high level and work in this area professionally, assuming a standard background of a condensed matter physics graduate student. The material is nicely organized into chapters which can be subdivided into daily learning segments and with problem sets that could be helpful for either formal course presentation or self study. Four appendices with more detailed presentations allow readers to develop the skills needed for using and extending present knowledge to advancing the science of few-layered materials or for developing applications based on these materials. All in all I would expect this to become a popular text for present and future researchers who will be active in the present decade, advancing science and launching technological innovation.”  (read the full review)

Mildred Dresselhaus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

 

“This book covers the fundamental aspects of graphene, starting from the very beginning. By reading this book, most basic subjects on graphene and some special theoretical methods can be understood at a high level. Starting with the current status of graphene science, the authors proceed to a self-contained description of the electronic structure of graphene, then an especially detailed description of the transport properties of graphene, such as back scattering, Klein tunnelling, quantum dots, Landau levels etc., based on the authors’ work. Methods introduced to investigate these subjects range from the tight binding method to ab initio calculations, so that the readers can select their preferred method, and the appendices contain useful mathematical explanations for these methods. Thus, without reading the other textbooks, the reader can understand the text. The book should be useful not only for theoretical researchers but also for graduate students and experimental researchers, who will quickly understand the theorists’ perspective. This book will be an important basic textbook on the physics of graphene.”  (read the full review)

R. Saito, Tohoku University

 

“Overall, this is an exceptional contribution to furthering graphene research, development and applications.” 

K. Alan Shore, School of Electronic Engineering, Bangor University, Wales (read the full review here)