This volume presents new methodologies and rationalizes existing methods that are used in the design of multi-shell polyhedral clusters. The author goes on to show how the recently established methods are used for building complex multi-shell nanostructures and how this completes the existing information in the field.

This book provides an interesting snapshot of new research within the fields of flexible and soft devices which use porous carbon-based materials. The increase in demand for soft and flexible electronics, electrochemical energy storage/conversion systems, piezoresistive pressure sensors has promoted the development of new strategies for the synthesis and integration of nanoporous carbon (NPC) into flexible and soft polymers and inorganic textures. The structural properties of such NPC materials combined with their mechanical, conductive and catalytic properties, show promising results for the...