This book presents a detailed account of the synthesis, characterization and application of organic and inorganic macromolecular nanostructured materials. These materials consist of simple organic compounds, inorganic complexes and polymers, and display unique properties such as electrical conductivity ranging from semiconducting to superconducting. Also described in the book are the roles of these materials in electrodeposition and gas deposition, as photosensitizers, magnets, macromolecular metal catalysts, sol-gel hybrids, and in biomineralization. The book covers many essential and timely issues involved in the synthesis of nanostructured materials. Content: Front Matter....Pages i-xvi Front Matter....Pages 1-1 An Integrated Systems-oriented Approach to Molecular Electronics....Pages 2-25 Supramolecular Polymers Containing Cyclodextrin....Pages 26-40 Cucurbituril: A Versatile “Bead” for Polyrotaxane Synthesis....Pages 41-59 Back Matter....Pages 60-64 Front Matter....Pages 65-65 Nanometer-size Multispin Macromolecules and Their Magnetic Force Microscopic Images....Pages 66-79 Synthesis and Characterization of New Highly Soluble Organic Polyimides....Pages 80-100 “Inorganic” Combinatorial Chemistry Utilizing Sol-Gel Transcription of Gelatinous Organic Superstructures....Pages 101-117 Development of Organogelators Based on Supramolecular Chemistry....Pages 118-137 Synthesis and Self-association of Stimuli-responsive Block Copolymers by Living Cationic Polymerization....Pages 138-149 Back Matter....Pages 150-154 Front Matter....Pages 155-155 Spherical, Fibrous Rock- and Sheet-like Noncovalent Polymers....Pages 156-167 Macromolecular Conjugated Complexes....Pages 168-181 Polymer-capped Bimetallic Nanoclusters as Active and Selective Catalysts....Pages 182-196 Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Materials Based on Silsesquioxanes....Pages 197-208 Protonation-induced Intramolecular Electron Transfer in the Ferrocene-Quinone Conjugated System....Pages 209-223 Oligomers of Non-natural Metal Complex Amino Acids....Pages 224-234 Back Matter....Pages 235-241 Front Matter....Pages 243-243 Macromolecular Metal Complexes in Biological Systems....Pages 244-257 Direct Observation of Supramolecular Structures of Biorelated Materials by Atomic Force Microscopy....Pages 258-272 Analyses of the Nanostructure of Calcium Carbonate Composite in Biominerals of Pinctada fucata ....Pages 273-280 A Novel Triple Helix Consisting of One Polynucleotide and Two Polysaccharide Chains....Pages 281-296 Physicochemical Properties of Spider Silk-An Approach to Nanostructure....Pages 297-320 Back Matter....Pages 321-324 Back Matter....Pages 325-335
