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Date: Thu Mar 26 08:18:47 2009
Subject: 09.09.29 Symposium "From Open-Shell Conjugated Molecules to Graphene: Theory and Experiment", Rodos, Greece
The short circular can be found at:
http://staff.aist.go.jp/k.harigaya/doc/short%20circular.pdf
International Symposium "From Open-Shell Conjugated Molecules to Graphene:
Theory and Experiment"
International symposium on electronic properties in graphene, nanographene,
and open-shell conjugated systems, will be held in the conference: "Seventh
International Conference of Computational Methods in Sciences and
Engineering" (http://www.iccmse.org/) at Hotel Rodos Palace, Rodos, Crete,
Greece. The conference period will be September 29 - October 4, 2009.
Submission of the short abstract is welcome for interested persons.
See the details at the Web site: http://www.iccmse.org/.
Scope
"Graphene" - a new carbonaceous material - is distinguished from
conventional electronic systems such as graphite due to its exceptional
features, e.g., a large magnetic moment around the zigzag edges and massless
Dirac fermion, stimulating development of future electronic/spintronic
devices. Several unique features of graphene are closely connected with
the "open-shell character", which originates in the "instability of
chemical bonds" in pi-conjugated system with unconventional spin states
and strongly correlates with the topology of pi-electron array, especially
aromatic sextet formation. This symposium focuses on recent hot topics
regarding unique physical and chemical properties derived from pseudo and
real spins in pi-conjugated compounds, toward collaboration between
theory, computational modeling and experiment. A wide range of compounds
from small conjugated/aromatic molecules and inorganic metal complexes to
nano- and large-size graphenes will be covered, and origin of the
open-shell character as well as functional properties such as electron
conductivity, optical and magnetic properties will be concentrated as
important domains in the symposium.
Organizers
Kikuo Harigaya, AIST; Masayoshi Nakano, Osaka University;
Takashi Kubo, Osaka University
Contact
Kikuo Harigaya, AIST; Tel: 029-861-5151; FAX: 029-861-5375;
E-mail: k.harigaya#,#aist.go.jp
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