This book will give a detailed description of different carbon based materials synthesis methods, characterization, and applications. It serves as a fundamental information source on the actual techniques and methodologies involved in carbon materials synthesis, such as CVD, plasma in liquids, fusion reactors, or frequency-doubled yttrium–aluminum– garnet (YAG) lasers. This book includes coverage of several categories of carbon materials, such as graphene, carbon fiber composites, functionalized carbons, and polyimides used for various applications, from microelectronic industry to slotted waveguide antennas.

• Offers the widest possible panorama of the state-of-the-art in carbon materials and their applications, from an interdisciplinary engineering point of view;
• Covers several categories of carbon materials, such as graphene, carbon fiber composites, functionalized carbons, and polyimides;
• Discusses synthesis, characterization, and processing of superconducting materials;
• Includes coverage of the state-of-the-art of polycondensation methods for various types of polyimide synthesis and their structural modification by plasma in liquids films.