Symposium Y, Functional Two-Dimensional Layered Materials, held at the 2011 MRS Spring Meeting in San Francisco, California, April 25 29, was the first MRS symposium to focus on graphene, topological insulator thin films, and other 2D and quasi-2D materials together, aiming to highlight breakthroughs, progress, and challenges in the synthesis, processing, structure, and assembly of 2D layered materials, and how these factors affect their properties and applications. The session topics included, materials synthesis and processing; structure and characterization; physical and chemical...

Heightened tensions in the South China Sea have raised serious concerns about the dangers of conflict in this region as a result of unresolved, complex territorial disputes. This volume offers detailed insights into a range of country-perspectives, addressing the historical, legal, structural, regional and multilateral dimensions of these disputes

Russia's new 'pivot to Asia' increases the global significance of Russia's Siberia and Far East. The contributors - recognized experts from Russia, China, South Korea, Japan, Norway and Singapore - analyze political, economic, social and geostrategic roadblocks in the Russia/Asia Pacific relations, offering directions for further development.

The last two and a half decades witnessed China's epoch-making economic growth and great social changes, which indicates the commence of China's national rejuvenation after a near two centuries-long stagnant or backward period. In exploring the causal dynamics of China's rejuvenation, Huang's book examines the internal and external elements from various sides, in both the comprehensive way and the separate way, thus providing a convincible explanation about the driving force of China's marvellous development.