Chapter 1 The element carbon .......................................... 1 Frank Hennrich, Candace Chan, Valerie Moore, Marco Rolandi, and Mike O'Connell Chapter 2 Synthesis of carbon nanotubes .............................. 19 David Mann Chapter 3 Carbon nanotube peapod materials ........................... 51 Satishkumar B. Chikkannanavar, Brian W. Smith, and David E. Luzzi Chapter 4 Carbon nanotube electronics and devices .................... 83 Marcus Freitag Chapter 5 Magnetic properties ....................................... 119 Junichiro Kono and Stephan Roche Chapter 6 Raman spectroscopy of single-walled carbon nanotubes: probing electronic and chemical behavior .............. 153 Stephen K. Doorn, Daniel Heller, Monica Usrey, Paul Barone, and Michael S. Strano Chapter 7 Electromechanical properties and applications of carbon nanotubes ................................................. 187 Randal J. Grow Chapter 8 Carbon nanotube-enabled materials ......................... 213 Han Gi Chae, Jing Liu, and Satish Kumar Chapter 9 Functionalized carbon nanotubes in composites ............. 275 Christopher A. Dyke and James M. Tour Chapter 10 Carbon nanotube tips for scanning probe microscopy ....... 295 C. Patrick Collier Index ............................................................... 315