NATO Science Series B

Plenary Lectures: Charge-Transfer Compounds.- Design Constraints for Organic Metals and Superconductors.- Structural Properties of Molecular Charge-Transfer Conductors and Semiconductors from Infrared and Raman Spectroscopy.- Plenary Lectures: Ion-Radical Salts and Superconductors.- Review of the Radical-Ion Salts.- Frontiers of Organic Superconductors.- Recent Developments in Organic Superconductors.- Structure-Property Relationships As an Aid in the Rational Design of ?-(ET)2X Organic Superconductors.- Transport Properties of Single Crystals and Polycrystalline Pressed Samples of (BEDT-TTF)2X Salts And Related Coordination Polymers.- Superconductivity in Molecular and Oxide Lattices: A Comparison.- Optical Studies of the Interplay Between Electron-Lattice and Electron-Electron Interactions in Organic Conductors and Superconductors.- Design and Synthesis of Polyheterotetraheterafulvalenes, Metal 1,2-Diheterolenes, and Their Low-Dimensional Conducting and Superconducting Salts.- Communications: Ion-Radical Conductors.- 135 K Crystallographic and Electronic Structure of (TMTTF)2SbF6.- Electron Paramagnetic Resonance of Organic Conductors (BEDT-TTF)2X.- Organic Metals from Chiral BEDT-TTF Donors.- New Conducting Solids Based on Some Symmetrical and Unsymmetrical ?-Donors.- TTF-Derivaitve Radical Cation Salts with Planar Tetracyanometallate Dianions and Large Acceptor Polymetallates.- New Synthetic Metal Precursors: Substituted Tetrathiotetracene and Related Compounds.- Spectroscopic Investigation of (2,5-DM-DCQNI)2M Materials in Bulk and Thin Film Forms.- The Series of Organic Conductors: (PERYLENE)x[M(mnt)2].- Transport and Magnetic Properties of (PERYLENE)2 Au(i-mnt)2.- The Metalloporphyrins of Group IIIB As Precursors in Low-Dimensional Molecular Solids.- Communications: Organic Superconductors.- Crystal Structures and Physical Properties of Dmet Superconductors.- Radical Cation Salts of BEDT-TTF with Metal-Thiocyanato Anions.- Magnetotransport in (BEDT-TTF)2Cu(NCS)2: Shubnikov-De Haas Effect and Upper Critical Field.- Raman Investigations on Single Crystals and Polycrystalline Pressed Samples of Organic Superconductors.- Calorimetric Studies of the Quantized Magnetic Ordering in the Organic Metal (TMTSF)2ClO4.- Nonlinear Electrical Transport Effects in the Spin-Density Wave State of the Organic Conductors (TMTSF)2X.- Two New Phases of (ET)2I3 (?d' and ?d).- Communications: Inorganic Lower-Dimensional Systems.- One-Dimensional Linear-Chain Complexes of Platinum, Palladium, and Nickel.- Polarons and Solitons in Halogen-Bridged Platinum Complexes.- Sliding Charge-Density Waves in Inorganic Crystals.- Synthesis, Structural Characterization, and Conductivity of the First Large Organic Electron Intercalates of Graphite.- Synthesis, Structural Characterization and Superconductivity in Novel Neutral Organic Intercalates of TaS2 and TiS2.- Plenary Lectures: Conducting Polymers.- Recent Progress in Conducting Polymers: Can We Expect Polymers with Conductivity Greater Than Copper and Strength Greater Than Steel?.- The Polyanilines: Recent Advances in Chemistry And Processing.- Electrical, Optical and Magnetic Properties of Polyaniline Processed from Sulfuric Acid and in Solution in Sulfuric Acid.- Polyaniline: New Physics in an Old Polymer.- Vibrational Molecular Spectroscopy of Conducting Polymers: A Guided Tour.- Communications: Conducting Polymers.- Anellateddipyrrolyl Systems: Synthesis and Electrical Properties of the Polymers.- Conducting Polymers From, 4-Cycloalkylthiophenes 363.- Orientation of Stretched Poly(3-Octylthiophene) Films: Visible and Infrared Dichroism Studies.- Vibrational Properties of Conducting Polymers with Aromatic or Heteroaromatic Rings.- Structural Investigation and Electrical Properties of Poly(P-Phenylene) Prepared in Two Different Ways.- Raman Cross-Sections of Highly Oriented CIS Polyacetylene.- Characterisation of Poly(P-Phenylene Vinylene) [PPV] Prepared by Different Precursor Routes.- Electrochemical Doping Processes of Conducting Polymers Studied with in Situ Ftir Spectroscopy.- Evolution of Electric Permittivities of pTS and pFBS Diacetylenes During Solid-State Polymerization.- Structural Characterization of Thiophene-Based Monomers, Polymers, and Oligomers, As Powders, Thick and Thin Films.- Transient Photoconductivity in Oriented Conjugated Polymers.- Encapsulation of Conducting Polymers Within Zeolites.- Low-Dimensional Electrically Conductive Systems. Intercalated Polymers in V2O5 Xerogels.- Gamma Irradiation of Poly(Pyrrole)-Coated Pt Electrodes: The Effect on the Electrochemical Behavior.- Communications: Theory.- Beyond the Hubbard Model: Screened Interactions in D 441.- Theoretical Characterization of the Electronic Structure of Poly(Heteroaromatic Vinylenes).- Theoretical Design of Organic Metals Based on the Phthalocyanine Macrocycle.- Electrically Conductive Phthalocyanine Assemblies. Structural and Non-Integer Oxidation Number Considerations.- Valence-Bond Treatment of 3/4-Filled Dimerized Chains -Extended Hubbard Results.- Plenary Lectures: Langmuir-Blodgett Films.- Possible Niches for Langmuir Blodgett Films.- Investigations of the Microstructure of Lipid Interface Films.- Charge-Transfer Conducting Langmuir-Blodgett Films.- Solid-State Molecular Engineering in Langmuir-Blodgett Films.- Communications: Langmuir-Blodgett Films.- Development of Novel Conductive Langmuir-Blodgett Films: Metallic Properties and Photochemical Switching Phenomena.- The Quest for Highly Conducting L-B Films.- Langmuir-Blodgett Films from Donor-Acceptor Substituted Polyenes.- Langmuir-Blodgett Films of a Pyrrole and Ferrocene Mixed Surfactant System.- Measurement Techniques in Pyroelectric Langmuir-Blodgett Films.- Effect of Light Intensity and Temperature on the Photovoltaic Parameters of Chlorophyll b Langmuir-Blodgett Films.- Plenary Lectures: Non-Linear Optics.- Photonics and Non-Linear Optics - Materials and Devices.- Langmuir-Blodgett Films for Non-Linear Optics.- All-Optical Switching Using Optical Fibers and Non-Linear Organic Liquids.- Optical Studies of Amphiphilic Molecules with Interesting Electro-Optical and Non-Linear Optical Properties.- Communication: Non-Linear Optics.- The Use of the Surface Plasmon Resonance Technique in Non-Linear Optics.- Plenary Lecture: Molecular Devices.- Review of the Organic Rectifier Project: Langmuir-Blodgett Films of Donor-Sigma-Acceptor Molecules.- Communications: Molecular Devices.- Solid-State Microelectrochemical Devices: Transistor and Diode Devices Employing a Solid Polymer Electrolyte.- Polymer Field-Effect Transistors for Transport Property Studies.- Molecular Lines.- Multifrequency Photochromic Memory Materials.- Functionalized Conducting Polymers Toward Molecular Devices.- Prospects for Truly Unimolecular Devices.- Participants.- Author Index.