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Preface	p. v
Atomic Clusters
Catalysis with Small Free Noble Metal Clusters	p. 1
Activated Diatomic Species as Important Reaction Intermediates of Nanocatalysis	p. 11
Relativistic Density Functional Calculations for Open-Shell Systems	p. 19
Electronic Structure and Stability of the As@Ni[subscript 12]@As[subscript 20] and As Cages	p. 25
Structural and Electronic Properties of CdTe Clusters	p. 39
Spin Excitations Induced by Projectile in Ferromagnetic Cluster	p. 47
Time-Dependent Charge Dynamics in C[subscript 60] and a Proposal for Nanostructure-based Computing Technology	p. 55
Molecular Dynamics Study of Iron Cluster Coalescence at Sub-Melting Point Temperatures	p. 59
Using Ideal PES Model to Study Kinetics of Complex System	p. 65
The Z=82 Shell Effect Near the Proton Drip-Line	p. 73
Organic and Molecular Clusters
Fundamental Cluster Studies of Materials and Atmospheric Chemistry	p. 81
Excited State Charge Transfer and Dissociation of Mg[superscript +]-CH[subscript 3]I Complex	p. 89
Catalysis
Fabrication of Two-Dimensional and Three-Dimensional Platinum Nanoclusters to Serve as High Technology Catalysts-Catalysts Capable of 100% Reaction Selectivity	p. 97
Elucidating Mechanistic Details of Catalytic Reactions Utilizing Gas Phase Clusters	p. 127
Computational Study of Metal Adsorption on TiO[subscript 2] (110) Surface	p. 135
Quantum Dots/Rings
Quantum Dots and Quantum Dot Lattice: Correlations in Small Quantal Systems	p. 143
Single Josephson Junctions as Qubits	p. 151
On the Absence of Kondo Resonance for Co Dimers on a Cu (111) Surface	p. 159
Energy Spectrum, Persistent Current and Electron Localization in Quantum Rings	p. 169
Nano-Wires and Tubes
Gadolinium Nanowire Growth on High-Index Silicon Surfaces	p. 175
The Effect of Functionalization on Double-Walled Nanotube Materials	p. 181
Spectroscopy-Based Characterization of Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes	p. 187
Assembly and Application of Carbon Nanotube Fibrils with Controlled and Variable Lengths by Dielectrophoresis	p. 193
Magnetic Properties
The Magnetism of the Polymerized C[subscript 60] Materials	p. 199
Building High Performance Magnetic Materials Out of Gas Phase Nanoclusters	p. 205
Magnetic Field Effects on Thermal Fluctuations of Cluster Magnetic Moments	p. 223
Magnetic and Thermal Properties of Interacting (Mn[subscript x]N) Clusters	p. 231
Spin Fluctuations and "Spin Noise"	p. 239
Electrical and Optical Properties
Geometry Driven Interfacial Effects in Nanoscopic and Macroscopic Semiconductor Metal Hybrid Structures: Extraordinary Magnetoresistance and Extraordinary Piezoconductance	p. 247
Light Torqued Nanomotors in a Standing Wave	p. 257
Comparison of the Mie Scattering of Co, Ni, and Fe Magnetic Spheres	p. 265
C 1s Core Photoemission of C[subscript 60] and C[subscript 59]N	p. 273
A Tunable Optical Parametric Oscillator Laser System for Single Particle Mass Spectrometry	p. 281
Reversible Optical Recording on a CdSe/ZnS Nanocrystal Thin Film	p. 295
Clusters on Support
Observing and Steering the Formation of Coordination Compounds on Surfaces at the Single-Molecule Level	p. 301
The Interaction of a Lithium Atom with a Graphite Surface	p. 307
Cluster Study of the Dissociation of H[subscript 2] on Cu and Ni (100) and (111) Surfaces	p. 321
Computational Investigation of the Effect of Cluster Impact Energy on the Microstructure of Films Grown by Cluster Deposition	p. 329
Metal-Benzene Complexes with Inserted Metal Atoms and the Possibility of Generating Magnetic Ni-Benzene Clusters	p. 341
Nano-Growth on Strained Surfaces/Nano-Assemblies
Influence of Structural Relaxation on the Optical and Electronic Properties of Ge and Si Nanocrystals	p. 349
Self-Assembled Nanowires Using Porous Alumina Templates	p. 355
Ceria-Zirconia-Alumina Mixed Oxides Prepared by the Organic-Free Sol-Gel Technique	p. 363
Light Induced Metal Nanoparticles Formation (M=Ag, Au, Cu, Pd, Pt) in Aqueous Solutions and Polymer Films Composed of SPEEK-PVA	p. 371
Lamb-Mossbauer Factors in Nanocrystals	p. 379
Intracluster Anionic Polymerization Induced by Electron Transfer from Alkali Metal Atom to Unsaturated Hydrocarbon Molecules	p. 387
Biology at Molecular Level
Dynamics of Gas Phase Oligonucleotides	p. 393
Theoretical and Experimental Aspects on Trapping and Detection of Single and Few Molecules by using Nanoprobes	p. 407
Computational Models of the Seven-Helix Trans-Membrane Human Melatonin Receptor MT1, One of Nature's Common Nano-Assemblies	p. 415
Biotechnology
Ultrahigh Magnetic Moments of Core-Shell Nanoclusters for Biomedical Applications	p. 423
Organization	p. 429
Participants	p. 431
Author Index	p. 447
Subject Index	p. 449