Systematization of data on the physical and chemical properties and application of carbon nanostructures

The methodical basics of creating information systems on the properties of nanoobjects are developed. It is shown that the main requirement for such systems is the capability of maintaining variations in the logical data structure which is manifested as they permanent change in the nomenclature of the characteristics and identification rules depending on a particular type of nanostructure. Computer technology of organization of the reference data collection taking into account the specific features of nanostructures and nanomaterials is proposed. Nanocarbon and a variety of its studied forms (fullerenes, nanotubes, nanodiamonds, etc.) in combination with continuous datastream on newly discovered forms, elucidation of their properties and potential application was taken for particular implementation of the database. The scheme of data description is based on multifactor classification of carbon nanoforms using topological features, type of chemical bonds, and multiple morphological features. The current content of the database is represented by the thermodynamic properties of fullerenes, their condensed analogues, and nanodiamond particles. It is shown that the database tools provide concentrated storage and dissemination of numerical and qualitative data for a variety of nanocarbon forms of different structure and typology.