Silicon carbide nanostructures exhibit a range of fascinating and industrially important properties, such as stability of photoluminescence, inertness to chemical surroundings, and good biocompatibility. These properties have generated an increasing interest in the materials, which have great potential in a variety of applications across the fields of microelectronics, optoelectronics, biomedical engineering, and medicine. Silicon carbide is a promising substitute for silicon, especially in high power, high temperature and high frequency microelectronic devices. Recent breakthrough...