Carbon has always been a unique and intriguing material from a funda- mental standpoint and, at the same time, a material with many technological uses. Carbon-based materials, diamond, graphite and their many deriva- tives, have attracted much attention in recent years for many reasons. Ion implantation, which has proven to be most useful in modifying the near- surface properties of many kinds of materials, in particular semiconductors, has also been applied to carbon-based materials. This has yielded, mainly in the last decade, many scientifically interesting and technologically impor- tant...

This volume is prepared from lecture notes for the course "Intercalation in Layered Materials" which was held at the Ettore Majorana Centre for Scientific Culture at Erice, Sicily in July, 1986, as part of the International School of Materials Science and Tech- nology. The course itself consisted of formal tutorial lectures, workshops, and informal discussions. Lecture notes were prepared for the formal lectures, and short summaries of many of the workshop presentations were prepared. This volume is based on these lecture notes and research summaries. The material is addressed to advanced...