This book presents both fundamental knowledge and latest achievements of this rapidly growing field in the last decade. It presents a complete and concise picture of the the state-of-the-art in the field, encompassing the most active international research groups in the world. Led by contributions from leading global research groups, the book discusses the functionalization of semiconductor surface. Dry organic reactions in vacuum and wet organic chemistry in solution are two major categories of strategies for functionalization that will be described. The growth of multilayer-molecular...

The study of Chinese characters has been refined through thousands of years. There are two major categories in general; the intensive method and the dispersed method. Starting from 1960s, a special Chinese character learning method, the "family word" study, was established. After 20 years of continuing research and development, this teaching method has been adopted broadly in Chinese word study, particularly, in the second and third levels of word studies, and utilized in diverse Chinese learning textbooks. Mr. Dachang Ji developed a "root word" system. It extends about 300 "word families"...