Molecular Materials and Functional Polymers (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

Editorial.- Invited Reviews.- Phthalocyanines and Phthalocyanine Analogues: The Quest for Applicable Optical Properties.- Inorganic Clusters in Organic Polymers and the Use of Polyfunctional Inorganic Compounds as Polymerization Initiators.- Recent Studies on Super-Hydrophobic Films.- The Azobenzene Optical Storage Puzzle - Demands on the Polymer Scaffold?.- Molecular Materials.- Nanotube Content in Arc Generated Carbon Powder.- Novel Functional Fullerene Materials: Fullerenes as Energy Acceptors.- A Phenyl ?-Nitronyl Nitroxide with a Forced Chiral Conformation.- Inorganic and Hybrid Inorganic-Organic Materials.- Thin Film Counterelectrodes with High Li Charge Capacity for Electrochromic Windows.- Studies on Hybrid Organic/Inorganic Nanocomposite Gels Using Photoluminescence Techniques.- Organic-Inorganic Sol-Gel Hybrids with Ionic Properties.- Excitonic Bands in the Spectra of Some Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Compounds Based on Metal Halide Units.- Functional Polymers.- Highly Regioregular Poly-3-alkylthiophenes: Influence of the Structure on Photoluminescence.- The Role of Interfaces in Photovoltaic Devices.- Peculiarities of the Interaction of Short Oligonucleotides with Supported Lipid Films and Langmuir Monolayers.- The Photophysics of Thin Polymer Films of Poly-(meta-phenylene-co-2,5dioctoxy-para-phenylenevinylene).- Visible Photoluminescence in Polysilanes.- Examination of the Spatial Distribution of Dyes and Polymers in Thin Films by Two-Photon Microscopy.- Lumine scence in Organic Silicons Prepared from Organic Precursors in Plasma Discharges.- UV-Induced Electrical and Optical Changes in PVC Blends.