The workshop is aimed at reviewing recent fundamental and applied results on the electronic and structural properties of thin organic films starting at the monolayer level.

Nanostructured films and their applications, ranging from electronic devices to biomedical processes will also be considered, at length scales ranging from micrometers down to single molecules.

The field of organic thin films and nanostructures has recently raised a lot of scientific interest in the community of material scientists. Organic thin films deposited on various substrates can have a wide range of applications, from photovoltaic systems to biocatalysts, from nanoelectronic devices to single molecule sensors. Frontier research can be done on the immobilisation of proteins and other biomolecules in ordered, functional structures. The fabrication of such structures will involve innovative applications of the Langmuir-Blodgett techniques and of molecular self-assembly, and the formation of surface nanostructures functioning as templates on which to deposit the molecules. Ultimate resolution in the fabrication of nanostructures will likely be achieved by innovative applications of AFM tip-induced local chemistry.

The workshop will allow to display the most recent developments in the synthesis and characterization of these materials with the objective of exploring the type of information that can be made available by the use of the most recent experimental technique available at synchrotron radiation storage rings. Electron spectroscopies, also at a microscopic or nanoscopic levels

Tuesday, 26th October 2004
13:30
	Registration
14:00
	A. Morgante (I.N.F.M. - Laboratorio Tasc) Welcome
14:15
	A. Morpurgo (Delft University) Electronic transport in Molecular conductors at controlled carrier density
15:00
	R. Fink (Erlangen-Nurnberg University) High resolution spectroscopy and spectromicroscopy of organic thin films
15:45
	F. Rochet (Pierre and Marie Curie University) Experimental and theoretical NEXAFS/XPS study of nitrile compounds chemisorbed on the Si(001)-2x1 surface
16:30
	Coffee break and poster session
17:00
	C. Wöll (Ruhr Univesität Bochum) When soft meets hard matters: From molecular monolayers to organic electronics
17:45
	M. Ramsey (Karl Franzen University Graz) Growth, geometric and electronic structure of organic nanostructures; What's the interface got to do with it?
18:30 19:30
	Poster session

Wednesday, 27th October 2004
9:00
	M. Prato (Trieste University) Organic functionalization of carbon nanotubes: synthesis and applications
9:45
	F. Stellacci (MIT) Self-assembly in nano-materials and lithography
10:30
	Coffee break and poster session
11:15
	R. Zamboni (ISMN-CNR Bologna) Organic electroactive and photoactive thin films as innovative architectures for optoelectronic and photonic devices
12:00
	F. Zerbetto (Bologna University) Bubbles, pumps and ball bearings at the molecular level

• Maurizio Prato - Universita` di Trieste (Italy)
  
• Roberto Zamboni - CNR Bologna (Italy)
  
• Christof Woell - Ruhr Universitaet Bochum (Germany)
  
• Francesco Stellacci - MIT (USA)
  
• Francesco Zerbetto - Universita` di Bologna (Italy)
  
• Alberto Morpurgo - Delft University (The Netherlands)
  
• Francois Rochet - Universite` Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris (France)
  
• Rainer Fink - Universitaet Erlangen Nuernberg (Germany)
  
• Michael Ramsey - Universitaet Graz (Austria)