The exciton, an excited electron–hole pair bound by Coulomb attraction, plays a key role in
photophysics of organic molecules and drives practically important phenomena such as …

Nowadays, biomaterials have become a crucial element in numerous biomedical,
preclinical, and clinical applications. The use of nanoparticles entails a great potential in …

The unidirectional growth of materials to form nanowires or nanotubes has attracted
enormous interest in recent years. Within the different classes of tubes made of organic or …

Molecular structures appear to be natural candidates for a quantum technology: individual
atoms can support quantum superpositions for long periods, and such atoms can in principle …

Quantum mechanics permits an entity, such as an atom, to exist in a superposition of
multiple states simultaneously. Quantum information processing (QIP) harnesses this …

The field of nanoscience was pioneered in the 1980s with the groundbreaking research on
clusters, which later led to the discovery of fullerenes. Handbook of Nanophysics: Clusters …

Electronic structure and transport properties of the fullerene C82 and the metallofullerene
Gd@ C82 are investigated with density functional theory and the Landauer− Büttiker …

Molecules assembled inside nanotubes to form 1D arrays exhibit functional properties
different to the bulk crystal and have been proposed for many applications ranging from …

Systematic errors in spin rotation operations using simple rf pulses place severe limitations
on the usefulness of the pulsed magnetic resonance methods in quantum computing …

Ce-containing endohedral fullerenes were produced by the so-called reversed arc
technique developed by the Nagoya group as described previously. 1 A Ce-doped graphite …