**Meet the editor**

Prof., Dr. Sci., PhD Natalia Vladimirovna Kamanina was born in Kaliningrad, Russian Federation, on March 19, 1957. She graduated from general school with gold medal (1974) and graduated with honor diploma from Leningrad Polytechnic Institute (1981), St. Petersburg, Russia. She has received a PhD degree (Physics and Mathematics) at Vavilov State Optical Institute, St. Petersburg,

Russia (1995), and a Dr. Sci. degree (Physics and Mathematics) at Vavilov State Optical Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia (2001). Now, she is the head of the Lab for "Photophysics of media with nanoobjects" at Vavilov State Optical Institute St. Petersburg, Russia. She has been involved in the collaboration research with many researchers and scientists in the world since 1995 and published in the area of laser-matter interaction and nanotechnology in optics about 200 technical papers and 13 patents. She has been the chief of three international and ten Russian scientific projects. In parallel to her scientific activity, she has been lecturing from 2002. She is a professor at St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University "LETI." Under her leadership, 5 young scientists have defended their PhD theses, and 17 master's students have received their master's degree diploma. Now, her current interest includes nano- and biotechnology in optics.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Important? 1**

**Section 1 On Synthesis Aspects 7**

**Section 2 On Properties Aspects 27**

Nora Berrah

**Carbon Films 95**

Chapter 1 **Introductory Chapter: Why the Study of Fullerenes is so**

Chapter 3 **Reactivity Indexes and Structure of Fullerenes 29**

**Encapsulating Carbon Nanotubes 69**

Chapter 6 **Super-Lubricious, Fullerene-like, Hydrogenated**

Ming-Chung Yang and Ming-Der Su

Chapter 4 **Fullerene Dynamics with X-Ray Free-Electron Lasers 49**

Chapter 5 **Structural and Vibrational Properties of C60 and C70 Fullerenes**

Hassane Chadli, Fatima Fergani and Abdelali Rahmani

Bin Zhang, Kaixiong Gao, Yuanlie Yu and Junyan Zhang

Chapter 7 **How Important is Metal-Carbon Back-Bonding for the Stability**

**Encapsulated Ions and Metal Ligands 111**

**of Fullerene-Transition Metal Complexes? Role of Cage Sizes,**

Ernestina Mora Jiménez, Francisco J. Tenorio, David Alejandro Hernández-Velázquez, Jaime Gustavo Rodríguez-Zavala and

Natalia Vladimirovna Kamanina

Chapter 2 **Rational Synthesis of Fullerenes 9** Konstantin Amsharov

Gregorio Guzmán-Ramírez
