Nanoscience has been the focus of science in the twenty first century and it provides many promising opportunities of new important findings of nanostructures and low-dimensional systems. The nanostructure and low dimensionality present peculiar physics uncommon to the classical or infinite-sized quantum system. Carbon is the materia prima for life and the basis of all organic chemistry. Because of the flexibility of its bonding, carbon-based systems show an unlimited number of different structures with an equally large variety of physical properties. For example, the beautiful fullerene is a zero-dimensional system, the carbon nanotube a one-dimensional system, and the graphene a two-dimensional system. These allotropes of carbon exhibit some particular properties, such as the superconductivity of fullerene, chirality-dependent conductivity of nanotube, and abnormal quantum Hall effects of graphene. The plenteous properties of those carbon-based systems could also offer the possibility of future applications for nano-devices.

 

We will invite researchers from different countries to participate in this Workshop. We would like to share our understanding of miscellaneous physical properties, manufacture methods, and applications of the carbon-related systems as well as other nanomaterials. Each speaker will give a talk in English. With this Workshop, we also wish to seek opportunities of the international communication and collaboration between experimentalists and theorists to promote researches in carbon-related systems and nanomaterials. All our colleagues, who wish to participate and contribute a talk, are welcome and they can contact Prof. Ming-Fa Lin ( mflin@mail.ncku.edu.tw ), and Drs. Yu-Huang Chiu ( airegg.py90g@nctu.edu.tw ), Chih-Wei Chiu ( giorgio@fonran.com.tw ), Jhao-Ying Wu ( yarst5@hotmail.com ), and Hsien-Ching Chung ( id14011622224@hotmail.com ) of National Cheng Kung University (NCKU).