The present Symposium is aimed to provide a Forum for the scientists working in different areas and with different methods in the so widely interdisciplinary field of Nanotechnology Research. The current state of "Nanotechnology" research will be focussed in view of both the well-established achievements and the new development strategies. In particular, the competition between the and the will be focussed. Thus, topics well established in the "engineering down" approach, mainly involving achievements in the field of nanoelectronics, including quantum wires, quantum dots, nanolithographic methods, etc., will be discussed together to topics related to the new "engineering-up" approach, as for instance physics and chemistry of non-conventional self-assembling and self-organizing systems and the preparation and properties of large "devices" based on biological macromolecules.

The idea is to obtain a cross-fertilization between contiguous areas like for instance nano-electronics, nano-biotechnology, nanocatalysis, and complementary theoretical and experimental approachs. All the aspects of the field should receive a suitable focus, including all the steps from theory to metrology to experimental procedures to real fabrication problems.

The Symposium topics will include, but will not be limited to, the following topics:

- Organic and inorganic nanometric layers;

- Nanocrystalline and nanoporous particles;

- Nanocomposites;

- Nanoelectronics including quantum dots and quantum wires;

- Self-organization of semiconductors;

- Hetero-nanostructures;

- Nanometric Patterning methodologies;

- Ion, electron and photon beam-based nanopatterning;

- Soft Lithography;

- Nanofabrication and manipulation based on Near Field Techniques (AFM, STM);

- DNA technology;

- Biological molecules arrays;

- Self-assembling and self-organizing films;

- Langmuir-Blodgett films;

- Surface reactivity of nanostructured materials;

- Hybrid systems on the nanoscale dimensions;

- Quantum size effects in nanoscale systems;

- Theory, simulation and design of nanoscale systems;

- Metrology of nanoscale systems;

- Structural and spectroscopic characterization of nanometric systems;

- Nanoscale microscopies and spectroscopies.

Scientific Committee: to be defined

Preliminary List of Invited Speakers: to be defined.

Symposium Organizers: