From owner-chemistry@ccl.net Wed Jul 22 18:44:00 2009 From: "Emmanuel N Koukaras koukaras(0)physics.upatras.gr" To: CCL Subject: CCL: ICCMSE 2009 - Symposium 2 - Nanoclusters, Nanostructures, and Composit Message-Id: <-39836-090722184043-14346-T08lkNJdpyCC7L2T68jD7A(-)server.ccl.net> X-Original-From: "Emmanuel N Koukaras" Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:40:39 -0400 Sent to CCL by: "Emmanuel N Koukaras" [koukaras _ physics.upatras.gr] Reminder Announcement Call for Papers ICCMSE 2009 / Symposium 2 ICCMSE 2009 - Seventh International Conference of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering - http://www.iccmse.org/aim.htm Hotel Rodos Palace, Rhodes, Greece 29 September - 04 October 2009 Title Theoretical modeling of group 14 based nanoclusters, nanostructures, and composite materials Organizer Aristides D. Zdetsis, Division of Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, Department of Physics, University of Patras, GR-26500 Patras, Greece. tel.: (+30) 2610 997458, fax: (+30) 2610 997458 web: http://moleng.physics.upatras.gr/personnel/ADZdetsis.html E-mail: zdetsis~~upatras.gr, zdetsis~~physics.upatras.gr Description In addition to carbon and silicon, germanium, tin, and in part lead can form many functional and important nanostructures, nanocrystals, and nanoclusters, which can be further functionalized by tailoring suitable key-properties according to specific needs. Such systems, and in particular hollow structures such as nanotubes and nanocages, are currently of great interest in science and technology with applications ranging from optoelectronics to biotechnology. Simple and mixed nanosystems such as silicon, carbon, germanium, silicon-carbon Fullerenes (cages) nanotubes and nanowires all the way to organometallic silicon and germanium structures, stannaspherene and plumbaspherene will be considered and the latest developments will be discussed and analyzed in this workshop. All theoretical, computational, or even experimental works related (directly or indirectly) with these topics are welcome. Special emphasis will be placed on calculations and/or approaches which bring up the similarities and differences between various systems and methods, as well as on unifying principles and concepts relating these systems to each other and to other groups.