edited by Hans Kuzmany (Universität Wien) , Jörg Fink (Institut für Festkörper- und Werkstoff- Forschung Dresden) , Michael Mehring (Universität Stuttgart) , & Siegmar Roth (Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung Stuttgart)

This volume is the latest of the “Kirchberg-Proceedings”. The previous 11 International Winterschools on Electronic Properties of Novel Materials, all held in Kirchberg, Austria, were devoted to conducting polymers, high temperature superconductors, fullerenes, and carbon nanotubes. Fullerenes and nanotubes are still in the center of interest, but the topic of the school and the proceedings is molecular nanostructures in general. The organizers have attempted to treat carbon nanostructures as a special case of molecular nanostructures, which also include silicon clusters, gold clusters, vanadium oxide tubes, and many others. The Winterschool provides a platform for reviewing and discussing new developments in the field of molecular nanostructures and their applications. Materials discussed include fullerenes, fullerene-derived structures, carbonaceous nanotubes, non-carbonaceous nanotubes, layer by layer systems, molecular clusters, new phases of carbon, endohedral compounds and related materials. The book aims to give an overview of the current status of fullerenes, carbon-nanotubes and related molecular nanostructures. The majority of the contributions present the latest results of experiments and calculations conducted in the field. However, about a dozen contain some degree of instructional material which even newcomers will benefit from.

• New Materials in the Nanoscale from Fullerenes, Silicon Clusters and Biomolecules (W Andreoni)
• Nucleation and Growth of Diamond Crystals Inside Carbon Onions (F Banhart et al.)
• On the Structures and Properties of Heterofullerene Salts (K Kordatos et al.)
• Recent Progress in the Theoretical Approach to Azafullerenes (A Curioni & W Andreoni)
• Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Fullerene Formation (I László)
• Surface Effects on the Electronic Structure of Solid C₆₀ (L Udvardi)
• Carbon Nitride Films from Nitrogen Bombardment of C₆₀ (B Pietzak et al.)
• Vibration of Atomic Nitrogen Inside C₆₀ (A Grupp et al.)
• Kinetics of C₆₀ Intercalation by Potassium (W Kempinski et al.)
• NMR Studies of Sodium Fullerides (F Rachdi et al.)
• Total Energy Calculations of Polyfulleride Ions (S Pekker et al.)
• Optical Investigation of Pressure Modified C₆₀ (M E Kozlov et al.)
• They are Unique: The (10,10) Tube and Its Tip (A Thess & R E Smallery)
• STM Manipulation of Individual Carbon Nanotubes (S Curran et al.)
• Self-Assembly of Fullerene Monolayers for Optoelectronic Applications (C Kallinger et al.)
• C₆₀ Aggregates and Nanoscale Carbon Particles (K Suzuki et al.)
• and other papers