From owner-chemistry@ccl.net Fri May  7 08:48:00 2010
From: "Demetrios Xenides xenides|a|uop.gr" <owner-chemistry[#]server.ccl.net>
To: CCL
Subject: CCL: Symposium on Clusters
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X-Original-From: "Demetrios  Xenides" <xenides,,uop.gr>
Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 08:46:05 -0400


Sent to CCL by: "Demetrios  Xenides" [xenides.]=[.uop.gr]
We would like to bring in to your kind attention the following Symposium:

"From Small Clusters to Functional Building Blocks of Novel Nanomaterials."
---Recent developments on the theoretical and experimental determination of the structures and properties of small, medium and large inorganic and metallic atomic and molecular clusters---

that is going to be organized during the ICCMSE 2010 (www.iccmse.org) in 
Hotel Kypriotis Village-Kypriotis Panorama-Kypriotis International Conference Center, Psalidi, Kos, Greece, 03-08 October 2010.

We would, also, like to note that the  Proceedings of ICCMSE 2010 will be published in the very famous AIP (American Institute of Physics) Conference Proceedings.

Please find below a description of the symposium:

Scope and Topics:

Modern technologies not only require a vast diversity of new materials with well specified properties but also materials of small size which are able to combine more than one function in the same process. In order to fulfill this demand, complex systems with special properties owed to nanoscale morphological features or components have emerged as a very appealing solution. Their potential applications are outstandingly diverse and concern both genuinely new and existing technologies which range from microelectronics, and communication, to catalysis, optics and biomedicine. This diversity is one of the main reasons of the remarkable development of the field, widely known as nanoscience during the last two decades.


The scientific and technological area of cluster chemistry and physics offers the prosper ground and the unique chance for both theoretical and experimental disciplines to combine their efforts. On one hand experimentalists need to explore new ways of producing in large scale crystals of high quality in the size of one billionth of a meter characterized by narrow size disparity and high emissive quantum efficiency. On the other hand, theoreticians have to try out old and new ideas aiming at a better understating of those nano-sized systems. The combination of these two disciplines is extremely vital nowadays due to the remarkable breakthroughs in the synthesis and the control of the size disparity the shape and the morphology of nanocrystalline which offer new perspectives in the research for novel materials for a wide range of technological applications.


Proposed Topics

 
--Structures and chemical or physical properties of small and medium clusters, nanoclusters, and nano-object.

-- Synthesis and experimental characterization of clusters and nanomaterials.

--Cluster based nanomaterials.

--Clusters as functional building blocks of novel nanomaterials.

--Magic clusters, Superatoms and Cluster assemblies.

--New theoretical methods designed for the efficient study of large clusters and nanostructures.


Best Regards,
Demetrios Xenides