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Contents
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Computational and Experimental Analysis of Carbon
Functional Nanomaterials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Pitchaimani Veerakumar, Namasivayam Dhenadhayalan,
and King-Chuen Lin
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Electronic Properties of Transition Metal-Benzene Sandwich
Clusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
Tsugunosuke Masubuchi and Atsushi Nakajima
Part IV Experimental Approach
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Si Nanopowder for Photoluminescence and Hydrogen
Generation Materials. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353
Yuki Kobayashi and Hikaru Kobayashi
10 New Na + Superionic Conductor Narpsio Glass-Ceramics. . . . . . . . . . . . . 383
Toshinori Okura and Kimihiro Yamashita
11 Surface Characterization of Plasma-Electrolytic Oxidized
Coatings by X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417
Elena A. Koblova, Alexander Yu. Ustinov, and Oleg L. Shcheka
12 Inter-spin Interactions of Organic Radical Chains in Organic
1D Nanochannels: An ESR Study of the Molecular
Orientations and Dynamics of Guest Radicals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423
Hirokazu Kobayashi
Part V Forthcoming Theoretical Approach
13 If Truncated Wave Functions of Excited State Energy Saddle
Points Are Computed as Energy Minima, Where Is the Saddle
Point? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465
N. C. Bacalis
14 Simulating Quantum Dynamics in Classical Nanoscale
Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515
Gabriel Hanna and Alessandro Sergi