Nanosilicon

Note that grey indicates completely new chapters under new authors, white indicates existing content to be revised and potentially restructured to reflect present science Silicon Nanoparticles: New photonic and electronic material at the transition between solid and molecule (M.H. Nayfeh and L. Mitas) Cluster Assembled Silicon Networks (P. Melinon, X. Blase, A. San Miguel and A. Perez) Metal Encapsulated Clusters of Silicon - Silicon fullerenes and other caged polyhedral forms (V. Kumar) Porous Silicon - Sensors and future applications (S. Lewis and J. Gole) Silicon Nanowires and Nanowire Heterostructures (Z. Zhong, C. Yang and C.M. Lieber) Theoretical Advances in the Electronic and Atomic Structures of Silicon Nanotubes and Nanowires (A.K. Singh, V. Kumar and Y. Kawazoe) Phonons in Silicon Nanowires (H. Gutierrez, K. Adu and P.C. Eklund) Quasi-One-Dimensional Silicon Nanostructures (Y. Lin, N. Gonzalez Szwacki and B.I. Yakobson) Low Dimensional Silicon as a Photonic Material (N. Daldosso and L. Pavesi) Nanosilicon Single-Electron Transistors and Memory (Z.A.K. Durrani and H. Ahmed) Thermoelectric applications of nanosilicon such as silicon nanowires (possibly Prof. Peidong Yang (Berkeley) or K. Giapis (Caltech) or D. Poulikakos (ETH), and/or G. Galli (UC Davis)) Recent developments related to Si devices (possibly Prof. Siegfried Mantl (Julich), or someone from HP/Intel) Nanosilicon as anode material in Li ion batteries (possibly Yi Cui (Stanford) or Brian Korgel (Univ. of Texas, Austin)) Nanosilicon for solar energy (possibly Michael D. Kelzenberg and coworkers CalTech, Dr. Marcie Black, or someone from NREL) Biological Systems (TBA)