Review 

1. RECENT ADVANCES IN TWO-DIMENSIONAL PHOTONIC CRYSTALS SLAB STRUCTURE: DEFECT ENGINEERING AND HETEROSTRUCTURE 

BONG-SHIK SONG; TAKASHI ASANO; SUSUMU NODA 

Page 1 - 13 

Brief Reports

2. ULTRASONIC PREPARATION AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF HgWO4 NANOSHUTTLES 

RUNPING JIA; QINGSHENG WU; YAPING DING 

Page 15 - 19 

3. THEORY–EXPERIMENT RELATIONSHIP OF THE "SHRINKING HOT GIANT" ROAD OF DYNAMIC FULLERENE SELF-ASSEMBLY IN HOT CARBON VAPOR 

S. IRLE; G. ZHENG; Z. WANG; K. MOROKUMA 

Page 21 - 30 

4. FACILE SYNTHESIS OF COPPER NANOPARTICLE CHAINS 

JIN-KU LIU; YI LU; XIAO-JUN HU; JIN MU 

Page 31 - 34 

5. COLLISION AND ENERGY TRANSFER BETWEEN C60 FULLERENES IN AN Ar-ATOMS-FILLED CARBON NANOPEAPOD 

HAIJUN SHEN 

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6. DYNAMIC RESPONSE OF CARBON NANOTUBES DISPERSED IN NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTAL 

SANG YOUN JEON; KYUNG AH PARK; IN-SU BAIK; SEOK JIN JEONG; SEOK HO JEONG; KAY HYEOK AN; SEUNG HEE LEE; YOUNG HEE LEE 

Page 41 - 49 

7. ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE OF FINITE-LENGTH CARBON NANOTUBES: CROSSOVER FROM FULLERENES TO NANOTUBES 

SUSUMU OKADA 

Page 51 - 57 

8. GROWTH OF CARBON NANOTUBES IN ETCHED ION TRACKS IN SILICON OXIDE ON SILICON 

A. S. BERDINSKY; P. S. ALEGAONKAR; H. C. LEE; J. S. JUNG; J. H. HAN; J. B. YOO; D. FINK; L. T. CHADDERTON 

Page 59 - 67 

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