Symposium A-7: "Preparation and Characterization of N anohelical/Spiral Substances"

co-operated as The 1st International Conference on Nanohel ical/Spiral Materials (Nanohelix-2003) and 11th Conference on Carbon Microco ils (CMC-11)

Scope
Helical/spiral forms are observed in living body, such as dou ble helix DNA, α-helix in proteins, the spiral structure of shellfish, vine pants, screw dislocation in solids, etc. That is, the 3D-helical/spiral stru cture is a fundamental structure of all objects. The 3D-helical/spiral stru ctured materials are very interesting because of their peculiar morphology, growth mechanism; we could expect novel and critical functionality from thes e helical/spiral structures.
This symposium will cover worldwide progress in the fields of various kinds of nanohelical/spiral materials such as carbon nanocoils, heli cal polyacetylene, helical ceramic nanocoils, helical organic polymers, etc.
The objectives of this symposium are: to discuss and share re cent achievements and innovations in the field of nanohelical/spiral substan ces, materials and technology in the world; to promote interest in the appli cation of various kinds of nanohelical/spiral substance and materials, espec ially as related to nano-, information-, bio-, nanodevice-, energy- and envi ronmental- conscious materials & technology; to facilitate communication between researchers from industries, national laboratories and academics for future international collaborations; and to encourage students, young scient ists, and young engineers to purpose future professional careers in these ma terials research, engineering and technology.
The symposium consists of several plenary lectures, four symp osia on nanohelical/spiral substances, such as carbon nanocoils, helical pol yacetylene, helical ceramic nanocoils, helical organic polymers, the materia ls & technology perspectives and future research directions. Each sympo sium will include several invited, oral and poster presentations.

Topics
* Carbon nanocoils
* Nanohelical polyacetylene
* Nanohelical ceramics
* Nanohelical polymers
* Coiling morphology
* Coiling-chirality, changing coiling-chirality,
* Coiling mechanism
* Relationship between nanohelical/spiral morphology and prop erties
* Nanohelical/spiral technology
* Others

Chairpersons
Prof. Seiji Motojima^1,2)
Gifu University
E-mail: motojima@apchem.gifu-u.ac.jp
Prof. Kazuo Akagi
University of Tsukuba
E-mail: akagi@mat.ims.tsukuba.ac.jp
Prof. Kenji Hanabusa
Shinsyu University
E-mail: hanaken@giptc.shinshu-u.ac.jp
Professor Eiji Yashima
Nagoya University
E-mail: yashima@apchem.nagoya-u.ac.jp
Professor X. Chen
Huaqiau University, China
E-mail: xqchen@apchem.gifu-u.ac.jp
Professor V.K. Varadan
The Pennsylvania State University, USA
E-mail: vjvesm@engr.psu.edu
Professor R.T. K Baker
University of Wisconsin, USA
E-mail:cml@catalyticmaterials.com