part PART I: Carbon Nanotubes -- chapter 1 Pristine and Filled Double-Walled Carbon Nanotubes -- chapter 2 Quantum Transport in Carbon Nanotubes -- chapter 3 Electron Transport in Carbon Nanotubes -- chapter 4 Thermal Conductance of Carbon Nanotubes -- chapter 5 Terahertz Radiation from Carbon Nanotubes -- chapter 6 Isotope Engineering in Nanotube Research -- chapter 7 Raman Spectroscopy of sp2 Nano-Carbons -- chapter 8 Dispersions and Aggregation of Carbon Nanotubes -- chapter 9 Functionalization of Carbon Nanotubes for Assembly -- chapter 10 Carbon Nanotube Y-Junctions -- chapter 11 Fluid Flow in Carbon Nanotubes -- part PART II: Inorganic Nanotubes -- chapter 12 Inorganic Fullerenes and Nanotubes -- chapter 13 Spinel Oxide Nanotubes and Nanowires -- chapter 14 Magnetic Nanotubes -- chapter 15 Self-Assembled Peptide Nanostructures -- part PART III: Types of Nanotwires -- chapter 16 Germanium Nanowires -- chapter 17 One-Dimensional Metal Oxide Nanostructures -- chapter 18 Gallium Nitride Nanowires -- chapter 19 Gold Nanowires -- chapter 20 Polymer Nanowires -- chapter 21 Organic Nanowires -- part PART IV: Nanowire Arrays -- chapter 22 Magnetic Nanowire Arrays -- chapter 23 Networks of Nanorods -- part PART V: Nanowire Properties -- chapter 24 Mechanical Properties of GaN Nanowires -- chapter 25 Optical Properties of Anisotropic Metamaterial Nanowires -- chapter 26 Thermal Transport in Semiconductor Nanowires -- chapter 27 The Wigner Transition in Nanowires -- chapter 28 Spin Relaxation in Quantum Wires -- chapter 29 Quantum Magnetic Oscillations in Nanowires -- chapter 30 Spin-Density Wave in a Quantum Wire -- chapter 31 Spin Waves in Ferromagnetic Nanowires and Nanotubes -- chapter 32 Optical Antenna Effects in Semiconductor Nanowires -- chapter 33 Theory of Quantum Ballistic Transport in Nanowire Cross-Junctions -- part PART VI: Atomic Wires and Point Contact -- chapter 34 Atomic Wires -- chapter 35 Monatomic Chains -- chapter 36 Ultrathin Gold Nanowires -- chapter 37 Electronic Transport through Atomic-Size Point Contacts -- chapter 38 Quantum Point Contact in Two-Dimensional Electron Gas -- part PART VII: Nanoscale Rings -- chapter 39 Nanorings -- chapter 40 Superconducting Nanowires and Nanorings -- chapter 41 Switching Mechanism in Ferromagnetic Nanorings -- chapter 42 Quantum Dot Nanorings.