chapter 1 Hyper-structured molecules for photonic applications / chapter 2 The design, synthesis, characterization and derivatization of fluorine-containing dendreimers and hyperbranched polymers -- chapter 3 Electronically controllable high spin systems realized by spin-polarized donors -- chapter 4 Magnetic ineractions in methylpyridinium nitronyl nitroxides -- chapter 5 Approach to hyper-structured light-to-spin conversion systems / chapter 6 Synthesis and photophysical properties of heptanuclear complexes with three dimensional rod-like rigidity -- chapter 7 Tuning of molecular topology in chromogenic cyclic oligomers / chapter 8 Metal complexes with ferromagnetic interactions / chapter 9 Preparation and asymmetric orientation of dipolar dendrons in an assemble structure -- chapter 10 Anisotropy of optical responses in two-dimensional molecular systems / chapter 11 Mesoscopic pattern formation of nanostructured polymer assemblies: Hierarchical structuring of two-dimensional molecular organizates -- chapter 12 Self-assembly of nanostructured materials: Dreams and reality / chapter 13 Ultrafast optical control of ion pair intermediates in electron transfer reactions: toward a molecular switch -- chapter 14 NEar field optics: principles and applications to nano materials / chapter 15 The current research activity of spin investigation in the nanoelectronics laboratory -- chapter 16 Development of exchange force microscopy -- chapter 17 Observation of surface magnetism of magnetic multilayers / chapter 18 Design of molecular spin devices: control of surface spin states / chapter 19 Electron tunneling into disordered materials