Self-Organization of Molecular Systems: From Molecules and Clusters to Nanotubes and Proteins: NATO Science for Peace and Security Series A: Chemistry and Biology

Recent Progress on Small Hydrogen Molecular Ions.- FDTD Studies of Metallic Nanoparticle Systems.- Exploring the Nitric Oxide Detoxification Mechanism of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Truncated Haemoglobin N.- Complex Symmetry, Jordan Blocks and Microscopic Self-organization.- Directed Transport of the Davydov Solitons by Unbiased a.c. Forces.- Some Properties of Solitons.- Spectral Effects of Resonance Dynamic Intermolecular Interaction for Crystalline Carboxylic Acids at Temperature Phase Transitions.- Linear Augmented Cylindrical Wave Method for Electronic Structure of Isolated, Embedded, and Double-Walled Nanotubes.- Anharmonicity and Soliton-Mediated Transport: Thermal Solitons, Solectrons and Electric Transport in Nonlinear Conducting Lattices.- How Exponential Type Orbitals Recently Became a Viable Basis Set Choice in Molecular Electronic Structure Work and When to Use Them.- Cation Hydrolysis Phenomenon in Aqueous Solution: Towards Understanding It by Computer Simulations.- Davydov's Solitons in DNA.- Potential Energy Surfaces for Reaction Catalyzed by Metalloenzymes from Quantum Chemical Computations.- Gold in Hydrogen Bonding Motif—Fragments of Essay.- Interatomic Potential for Platinum and Self-Diffusion on Pt(111) Surface by Molecular-Dynamics Simulation.- Gap-Townes Solitons and Delocalizing Transitions of Multidimensional Bose–Einstein Condensates in Optical Lattices.- Hydration Effects on Photophysical Properties of Collagen.- Cluster Quantum Chemical Study of the Grignard Reagent Formation.

Represents the collection of lectures which review the current state of art of the field of micro-, nano-, and macro-dimensions Present the main frontier achievements in the molecular self-organization processes in liquid water and aqeous solutions, and molecular liquids, nanodots, nanoparticles including gold, solitons, biomolecules such as DNA and proteins, biopolymers and biosensors, catalysis, molecular modeling, molecular devices and thin films Offers advanced directions in computational, experimental, and technological areas of nano- and bioscience towards engineering novel and powerful self-organized assemblies with tailored properties