The papers included in this issue of ECS Transactions were originally presented in the symposia ¿Carbon Nanotubes and Nanostructures: Fundamental Properties and Processes¿; ¿Carbon Nanotubes and Nanostructures: Applications and Devices¿; ¿Carbon Nanotubes and Nanostructures: Medicine and Biology¿; and ¿Porphyrins and Supramolecular Assemblies¿ held during the 215th meeting of The Electrochemical Society, in San Francisco, CA from May 24 to 29, 2009.

The papers included in this issue of ECS Transactions were originally presented in the symposia ¿Electron Transfer and Applications of Fullerene and Nanostructured Materials¿, ¿Molecular and Supramolecular Chemistry of Fullerenes and Carbon Nanotubes¿, ¿Carbon Nanotubes and Nanostructures: Fundamental Properties and Processes¿, ¿Carbon Nanotubes and Nanostructures: Applications and Devices¿, ¿Energetics and Structure and Solid-State Physics¿, ¿Carbon Nanotubes and Nanostructures: Medicine and Biology¿, and ¿Porphyrins and Supramolecular Assemblies¿ held during the 213th meeting of The Electrochemical Society, in Phoenix, Arizona from May 18 to 23, 2008.

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