Molecular Materials and Functional Polymers

- Invited Reviews: Phthalocyanines and Phthalocyanine Analogues: The Quest for Applicable Optical Properties (C. G. Claessens, W. J. Blau, M. Cook, M. Hanack, R. J. M. Nolte, T. Torres, and D. Wöhrle); Inorganic Clusters in Organic Polymers and the Use of Polyfunctional Inorganic Compounds as Polymerization Initiators (G. Kickelbick and U. Schubert); Recent Studies on Super-Hydrophobic Films (A. Nakajima, K. Hashimoto, and T. Watanabe); The Azobenzene Optical Storage Puzzle - Demands on the Polymer Scaffold? (S. Hvilsted and P. S. Ramanujam)

- Molecular Materials: Nanotube Content in Arc Generated Carbon Powder (J. N. Coleman, D. F. O'Brien, B. McCarthy, R. C. Barklie, and W. J. Blau); Novel Functional Fullerene Materials: Fullerenes as Energy Acceptors (K. Kordatos, T. Da Ros, M. Prato, C. Luo, and D. Guldi); A Phenyl a-Nitronyl Nitroxide with a Forced Chiral Conformation (M. Minguet, D. B. Amabilino, K. Wurst, and J. Veciana)

- Inorganic and Hybrid Inorganic-Organic Materials: Thin Film Counterelectrodes with High Li Charge Capacity for Electrochromic Windows (F. Varsano, F. Decker, and E. Masetti); Studies on Hybrid Organic/Inorganic Nanocomposite Gels Using Photoluminescence Techniques (V. Bekiari, E. Stathatos, P. Lianos, U. L. Stangar, B. Orel, and P. Judeinstein); Organic-Inorganic Sol-Gel Hybrids with Ionic Properties (U. L. Štangar, B. Orel, N. Grošelj, P. Judeinstein, F. Decker, and P. Lianos); Excitonic Bands in the Spectra of Some Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Compounds Based on Metal Halide Units (G. C. Papavassiliou, G. A. Mousdis, and I. B. Koutselas)

- Functional Polymers:

- Highly Regioregular Poly-3-alkylthiophenes: Influence of the Structure on Photoluminescence (A. Bolognesi, C. Botta, and W. Porzio); The Role of Interfaces in Photovoltaic Devices (P. F. van Hutten and G. Hadziioannou); Peculiarities of the Interaction of Short Oligonucleotides with Supported Lipid Films and Langmuir Monolayers (T. Hianik, M. Fajkus, P.