碳材料科學與工程基礎(第2版)（簡體書）

Preface
One of the authors (M. Inagaki) has been emphasizing the importance of nanotexture, as well as structure, to understand carbon materials. In 1985, he proposed the classifi-cation of nanotexture of carbon materials on the basis of preferred orientation schema of anisotropic layers of carbon hexagons, planar, axial, point and random orientation. Nanotexture is formed during carbonization of organic precursor, as well as structure, and governs the structure development during heat treatment at high temperatures, which has been understood as graphitizing and non-graphitizing. Nanotextures can explain the reason why fibrous carbon materials exist, such as car-bon fibers and tubes, and the spherical carbons, such as carbon blacks and fullerenes, from strongly anisotropic carbon layers consisting mainly of hexagons. In order to convince of the importance of nanotextures in carbon science and engineering, he published a book in Japanese entitled ‘Materials Engineering of Carbons’ in 1985, and another book in Japanese entitled ‘New Carbon Materials -Structure and Functions’ with his friend, Y. Hishiyama in 1994. In 2000, the book in English enti-tled ‘New Carbons -Control of Structure and Functions’ from Elsevier added the concept of carbon families, diamond, graphite, fullerene and carbyne, to follow the rapid progress in science, engineering and applications of carbon materials. However, he strongly felt that, even though many young scientists and engineers are interested in and working on nanocarbons, such as carbon nanotubes and gra-phenes, fundamental knowledge on carbon materials is necessary for them. Most basics of carbon materials were already clarified before 1985. The books, which give such fundamental knowledge on carbon materials, are rather few and also it must be handy and easy to buy. Therefore, he discussed with Prof F. Kang and decided to publish the book from Tsinghua University Press, China, entitled ‘Carbon Materials Science and Engineering -From Fundamentals to Applications’. The book aims to give comprehensive information firstly on funda-mental science on preparation and characterization of various carbon materials, and secondly on engineering and applications of various carbon materials, on the basis of the same basic concept as published before, i.e., classifications based on carbon families and nanotextures.
Since so many copies have been sold mostly in China, the present authors
(M. Inagaki and F. Kang) decided to write advanced science and engineering on carbon materials under the corporation of two more authors (M. Toyoda and

H. Konno) by taking in recent developments, and it was published in September, 2013, with the title ‘Advanced Science and Engineering on Carbon’ by two publishers, Tsinghua University Press and Elsevier. At the same time, the publish-ers asked the present authors to revise and up-date the previous book ‘Carbon Materials Science and Engineering -From Fundamentals to Applications’. Here, the revised version is presented.

In this revised version, the content is largely revised and up-dated, for example, a chapter of nanocarbons is newly added, although fundamentals in car-bon science and engineering do not change and the basic concepts, carbon fami-lies and nanotextures, are still valid. The authors hope to provide fundamental science and engineering on carbon materials, associated with some applications, to young graduate students who are working on various carbon materials and also engineers whose works are more or less related to carbon materials. It will be a great pleasure for the authors if they will always bring this book with them to dis-cuss their results and to read the scientific papers published. They may find out how the data they got and/or those published either agree or disagree with the general information explained in this book, and also what is missing from this book.

Acknowledgments
The authors would like to express their sincere thanks to the people who kindly provided the data and figures for this book, the names and affiliations of contri-buted persons being mentioned in the caption of figures and tables. They also thank all of the people who took care of this book in Tsinghua University Press and also in Elsevier.