New Trends in Nanotechnology and Fractional Calculus Applications

Preface; New trends in nanotechnology: Novel Molecular Diodes Developed by Chemial Conjugation of Carbon Nanotubes with Peptide Nucleic Acid, by Krishna V. Singh, Miroslav Penchev, Xiaoye Jing, Alfredo A. Martinez-Morales, Cengiz S. Ozkan and Mihri Ozkan; Hybrid Single Walled Carbon Nanotube FETs for High Fidelity DNA Detection, by Xu Wang, Mihri Ozkan, Gurer Budak, Ziya B. Guvenc and Cengiz S. Ozkan; Towards integrated nanoelectronic and photonic devices, by Alexander Quandt, Maurizio Ferrari and Giancarlo C. Righini; New noninvasive methods for 'reading' of random sequences and their applications in nanothechnology, by Raoul R. Nigmatullin; Quantum confinement in nanometric structures, by Magdalena L. Ciurea and Vladimir Iancu; Techniques and applications: Air-fuel ratio control of an internal combustion engine using CRONE control extended to LPV systems, by Mathieu Moze, Jocelyn Sabatier and Alain Oustaloup; Non integer order operators implementation via switched capacitors technology, by Riccardo Caponetto, Giovanni Dongola, Luigi Fortuna and Antonio Gallo; Analysis of the fractional dynamics of an ultracapacitor and its application to a Buck-Boost converter, by A. Parreno, P. Roncero-Sanchez, X. del Toro Garcia, Vicente Feliu and F. Castillo; Approximation of a fractance by a network of four identical RC cells arranged in gamma and a purely capacitive cell, by Xavier Moreau, Firas Khemane, Rachid Malti and Pascal Serrier; Mathematical tools: On deterministic fractional models, by Margarita Rivero, Juan J. Trujillo and M. Pilar Velasco; A new approach for stability analysis of linear discrete-time fractional-order systems, by Said Guermah, Said Djennoune and Maamar Bettayeb; Stability of fractional-delay systems: an efficient approach, by Farshad Merrikh-Bayat; Comparing numerical methods for solving nonlinear fractional order differential equations, by Farhad Farokhi, Mohammad Haeri and Mohammad S.Tavazoei; Fractional-order backward-difference definition formula analysis, by Piotr Ostalczyk; Fractional differential equations on algebroids and fractional algebroids, by Oana Chis, Ioan Despi and Dumitru Opris; Generalized Hankel transform and fractional integrals on the spaces of generalized functions, by Kuldeep Singh Gehlot and Dinesh N. Vyas; Some bounds on maximum number of frequencies existing in oscillations produced by linear fractional order systems, by Sadegh Bolouki, Mohammad Haeri, Mohammad Saleh Tavazoei and Milad Siami; Fractional derivatives with fuzzy exponent, by Witold Kosinski; Game problems for fractional-order systems, by Arkadii Chikrii and Ivan Matychyn; Synchronization analysis of two networks, by Changpin Li and Weigang Sun; Fractional modelling: Modelling ultracapacitors as fractional-order systems, by Yang Wang, Tom T. Hartley, Carl F. Lorenzo, Jay L. Adams, Joan E. Carletta and Robert J. Veillette; IPMC actuators non integer order models, by Riccardo Caponetto, Giovanni Dongola, Luigi Fortuna, Antonio Gallo and Salvatore Graziani; On the implementation of a limited frequency band integrator and application to energetic material ignition prediction, by Jocelyn Sabatier, Mathieu Merveillaut, Alain Oustaloup, Cyril Gruau and Herv? Trumel; Fractional order model of beam heating process and its experimental verification, by Andrzej Dzielinski and Dominik Sierociuk; Analytical design method for fractional order controller using fractional reference model, by Badreddine Boudjehem, Djalil Boudjehem and Hicham Tebbikh; On observability of nonlinear discrete-time fractional-order control systems, by Dorota Mozyrska and Zbigniew Bartosiewicz; Chaotic fractional order delayed cellular neural network, by Vedat ?elik and Yakup Demir; Fractional wavelet transform for the quantitative spectral analysis of two component system, by Murat Kanbur, Ibrahim Narin, Esra ?zdemir, Erdal Din? and Dumitru