6 - 11 September 2011

Hotel Villa del Mare, Acquafredda di Maratea, Italy

Nanomaterials (with one or more dimension in the 1-100 nm range) have specific properties mainly governed by quantum physics or surface effects, and significantly different from those of macroscopic objects. Emblematic nanomaterials are carbon nanotubes, which have generated a worldwide, and highly competitive, scientific research activity. Because of the particular properties associated with one-dimensional objects, numerous potential applications of nanotubes are envisaged in areas such as aerospace, automobile, nanoelectronics and medicine.