part, Part 1: NOVEL NANOSTRUCTURES AND DEVICES -- chapter 1 Nanopatterning with Diblock Copolymers -- chapter 2 Nanostructured Materials: Basic Concepts, Microstructure and Properties -- chapter 3 Tuning the Electronic Structure of Solids by Means of Nanometer-sized Microstructures -- chapter 4 Epitaxial Growth and Electronic Structure of Self-assembled Quantum Dots -- chapter 5 Self Assembled Quantum Dot Devices -- chapter 6 Solvothermal Synthesis of Non-oxides Nanomaterials -- chapter 7 Nanostructures at Solid/Liquid Interface -- chapter 8 Fabrication, Characterization and Physical Properties of Nanostructured Metal Replicated Membranes -- chapter 9 Vesicular and Tubular Nanoassemblies of an Helical Amphiphilic Polyacetylene -- chapter 10 Evolution of Two-Dimensional Nanoclusters on Surfaces -- part, Part 2: FULLERENES AND NANOTUBES -- chapter 11 Exploring the Concave Nanospace of Fullerenic Material -- chapter 12 Controlled Synthesis of Carbon Nanotubes and their Field Emission Properties -- chapter 13 Superconductivity in 4-Angstrom Carbon Nanotubes -- chapter 14 Ultra-small Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes and their Novel Properties -- chapter 15 Free Radical Attack on C60 Embedded in Nanochannels of Mesoporous Silica -- chapter 16 Template-directed Synthesis of Carbon Nanotube Array by Microwave Plasma Chemical Reaction at Low Temperature -- chapter 17 Field Emission Enhancement of Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes Film by Thermal Treatment under UHV and in Hydrogen and Ethylene Atmospheres -- part, Part 3: NANOCOMPOSITES AND SEMICONDUCTOR NANOSTRUCTURES -- chapter 18 Micro-domain Engineering for Optics and Acoustics -- chapter 19 Distinguishing Spinodal and Nucleation Phase Separation in Dewetting Polymer Films -- chapter 20 Fabrication of Mesoscopic Devices Using Atomic Force Microscopic Electric Field Induced Oxidation -- chapter 21 Copper Nanowires Prepared by the Treatment of the Cu2S Nanowires in a Radio-frequency Hydrogen Plasma -- chapter 22 The Viscoelastic Effect on the Formation of Mesoglobular Phase of Dilute Heteropolymer Solutions -- chapter 23 Chemical Coating of the Metal Oxides onto Mesoporous Silicas -- chapter 24 Emission in Wide Band Gap II-VI Semiconductor Compounds with Low Dimensional Structure -- chapter 25 Temperature and Magnetic Field Dependent Transports in Granular Structures -- chapter 26 Mechanism and Method of Single Atom Pyramidal Tip Formation from a Pd Covered W Tip -- chapter 27 Hydrogen and Proton Transport Properties of Nanoporous Zeolite Micromembranes -- part, Part 4: THEORY AND SIMULATIONS -- chapter 28 Alkali Intercalation of Ultra-small Radius Carbon Nanotubes -- chapter 29 Engineering Acoustic Band Gaps in Phononic Crystals -- chapter 30 Quantum Dynamics of Coupled Quantum-Dot Qubits and Dephasing Effects Induced by Detections -- chapter 31 Coherent Dynamics and Quantum Information Processing in Josephson Charge Devices.