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The beginning of the twenty-first century wit- nessed tremendous breakthroughs in nanosci- ence and nanotechnology. Carbon nanotubes, discovered by Iijima in 1991, have been one of the most interesting materials with exotic properties for the last twenty years. Carbon na- notubes are typically considered as molecular- scale tubes of graphitic carbon. This book pre- sents a selection of the latest developments in nanotechnology and nanomaterials