Molecular Low Dimensional and Nanostructured Materials for Advanced Applications [Paperback]

A presentation and discussion of the most recent advances in the field by the world's leading experts. Topics dealt with include new organic metals with quasi-two-dimensional structure, new organic superconductors, conducting and magnetic hybrid organic-inorganic materials, and highly conducting organic composites. Also reported are very interesting, significant results on optically controllable gratings in liquid crystals and polymers, organic electroluminescent materials, functionalised polymers and photonics, and nonlinear optics. Some new, fascinating fullerene derivatives and organic and metallic clusters are also presented. The chemical design of logic gates and molecular logic machines and the analysis of the roles of defects in clusters are attracting great interest. The properties of semiconducting quantum wires, electronic transport through magnetic molecular nanostructure and electronic transport properties of nanostructures containing both ferromagnetic and superconductors are also presented and discussed.Electronic Properties of Quasi-Two-Dimensional Organic Metals.- Organic Electroluminescent Devices. Control of Carrier Injection.- Dipolar Species in Molecular Materials: Towards Modulation of Charge Carrier Mobilities by Electrostatic Interactions.- Photochromic Molecules as Control Units in Molecular Switches.- Recent Advances in Engineering and Application of Functionalized Polymers in Nonlinear Optics.- Organic Conducting Composites: Realization and Properties.- Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines-Correlation of Molecular Structure and Photoactivity.- Non-Fermi Liquids in Quantum Wires.- Conductance Oscillations in Ferromagnetic andreev Interferometers.- Electronic Transport Through Magnetic Molecular Nanostructures.- Delocalized Electrons as a Source of Non-Linearity : Electron-Phonon Coupling and Environmental Effects Beyond Perturbation Theory.- Intramolecular Electron Transfer in Organic Molecules. Molecular Nanowires.- Organic Superconductors: Desiglã1