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Sebastiano Campagna is Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Messina and is Chairman of the Gruppo Italiano di Fotochimica (GIF), the Italian branch of the European Photochemistry Association. His current research deals with supramolecular photochemistry and artificial photosynthesis.
Paola Ceroni, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the University of Bologna. Her current research is focused on the photochemistry and electrochemistry of molecular and supramolecular systems, with an emphasis on photoactive dendrimers.
Fausto Puntoriero, PhD, is a researcher at the University of Messina, where his research deals with the development of functional and photo- and redox-active multicomponent systems.
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1 Dendrimers as quantized nano-modules in the nanotechnology field 1
Jørn B. Christensen and Donald A. Tomalia
2 Novel methods for dendrimer synthesis 35
Isao Washio and Mitsuru Ueda
3 Designer monomers to tailored dendrimers 57
George R. Newkome and Carol Shreiner
4 Dendronized polymers: state of the art in Zurich 95
Afang Zhang and A. Dieter Schl€uter
5 Shape persistent polyphenylene-based dendrimers 121
Martin Baumgarten, Tianshi Qin, and Klaus M€ullen
6 Dendrimer chemistry with fullerenes 161
Jean-Franc¸ois Nierengarten
7 Redox and fluorescent open core dendrimers 195
Angel E. Kaifer
8 Redox-active organometallic dendrimers as electrochemical sensors 219
Carmen M. Casado, Beatriz Alonso, Jose Losada, and Marı´a Pilar Garcı´a-Armada
9 Shape-persistent conjugated dendrimers for organic electronics 263
Jing Yan, Fan Gao, Jian Pei, and Yuguo Ma
10 Fine-controlled metal assembly in dendrimers 303
Takane Imaoka and Kimihisa Yamamoto
11 Enlightening structure and properties of dendrimers by fluorescence depolarization 341
Giacomo Bergamini, Enrico Marchi, Paola Ceroni, and Vincenzo Balzani
12 Single-molecule spectroscopy of dendrimer systems 367
Tom Vosch
13 Degradable dendrimers 403
Marc Gingras
14 Porphyrin dendrimers as biological oxygen sensors 463
Sergei A. Vinogradov and David F. Wilson
15 Peptide dendrimers as artificial proteins 505
Tamis Darbre and Jean-Louis Reymond
16 Phosphorus-containing dendritic architectures: synthesis and applications 529
Anne-Marie Caminade and Jean-Pierre Majoral
Index 563