The fabrication methods of the microelectronics industry have been refined to produce ever
smaller devices, but will soon reach their fundamental limits. A promising alternative route to …

Hydrogen bonds are like human beings in the sense that they exhibit typical grouplike
behavior. As an individual they are feeble, easy to break, and sometimes hard to detect …

Recently, a new class of photoelectrochemical cells based on nanoscaled porous metal
oxide semiconductors (dye-sensitized solar cell) has promoted intense research due to the …

The engineering of highly organized systems from instructed molecular building blocks
opens up new vistas for the control of matter and the exploration of nanodevice concepts …

Selective non-covalent interactions have been widely exploited in solution-based chemistry
to direct the assembly of molecules into nanometre-sized functional structures such as …

Supramolecular chemistry has a very large impact on chemistry of current interest and the
use of non-covalent but directional forces is appealing for the construction of …

The controlled fabrication of nanometer-scale objects is without doubt one of the central
issues in current science and technology. However, existing fabrication techniques suffer …

The realization of molecule-based miniature devices with advanced functions requires the
development of new and efficient approaches for combining molecular building blocks into …

Surface science techniques have now reached a stage of maturity that has enabled their
successful deployment in the study of complex adsorption systems. A particular example of …

Metal–organic coordination structures are materials comprising reticular metal centers and
organic linkers in which the two constituents bind with each other via metal–ligand …