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This is a course of 4 lectures, annotation: These lectures give a compact and relatively simple introduction to physics and chemistry of novel carbon nanomaterials including fullerenes, graphene and nanotubes. The emphasis will be on the electron structure of these materials and the relation between the electron structure and their physical properties. For the understanding of the material the basic knowledge of quantum mechanics and condensed matter physics is required. The course is partitioned in three main sections: in the first part the physics and chemistry of fullerenes is reviewed, in the second we consider graphene and in the third – carbon nanotubes. Each part starts with a brief historical introduction, followed by a discussion of the electron model (the tight-binding method for periodic structures of graphene and carbon nanotubes), applied to the description of the material. In the end of each part possible applications are reviewed.