Book Description:
This new book presents recent research results in the field of condensed matter which is one of the most active fields of physics, with a stream of discoveries in areas from superfluidity and magnetism to the optical, electronic and mechanical properties of materials such as semiconductors, polymers and carbon nanotubes. It includes the study of well-characterized solid surfaces, interfaces and nanostructures as well as studies of molecular liquids (molten salts, ionic solutions, liquid metals and semiconductors) and soft matter systems (colloidal suspensions, polymers, surfactants, foams, liquid crystals, membranes, biomolecules etc) including glasses and biological aspects of soft matter.

Table of Contents:
Preface

Chapter 1 - A Molecular Dynamics Description of Clusters in Strong Fields, pp. 1-8;
(M. Belkacem, F. Megi, E. Suraud,P.-G Reinhard and G. Zwicknagel)

Chapter 2 - Extended Universality in a Statistical Mechanical Model, pp. 9-19;
(Carlos Wexler, Cintia M. Lapilli and Peter Pfeifer)

Chapter 3 - Metal-Insulator Phenomena in 2D: A Unified Scaling Picture, pp. 21-30;
(D.J.W. Geldart and D. Neilson)

Chapter 4 - Phase Transitions and Hysteresis in a System of Two Coupled Magnetic Nanoparticles, pp. 31-39;
(Karl E. Kürten)

Chapter 5 - Recent Advances in the Electronic and Vibrational Studies of Carbon Nanotubes using Fullerenes as Local Probes,
pp. 41-94;
(Ferenc Simon)

Chapter 6 - Effect of Apical Oxygen Ordering on Tc of Cuprate Superconductors, pp. 95-118;
(H. Yang, Q.Q. Liu, F.Y. Li, C.Q. Jin and R.C. Yu)

Chapter 7 - Geometric Effects and Magnetic Phases in Quantum Rings, pp. 119-131;
(S. Janecek, M. Aichinger, E. Räsänen and S.A. Chin)

Index