Nanowires -- From Ordered Arrays of Nanowires to Controlled Solid State Reactions -- Growth Methods and Properties of High Purity III-V Nanowires by Molecular Beam Epitaxy -- Simple Ways to Complex Nanowires and Their Application -- ZnO Nanostructures: Optical Resonators and Lasing -- Waveguiding and Optical Coupling in ZnO Nanowires and Tapered Silica Fibers -- Quantum Dots and Nanoparticles -- Electrically Driven Single Quantum Dot Emitter Operating at Room Temperature -- Silicon Nanoparticles: Excitonic Fine Structure and Oscillator Strength -- Intrinsic Non-Exponential Decay of Time-Resolved Photoluminescence from Semiconductor Quantum Dots -- Electrical Spin Injection into Single InGaAs Quantum Dots -- Spin and Magnetism -- Spintronic and Electro-Mechanical Effects in Single-Molecule Transistors -- Transport in 2DEGs and Graphene: Electron Spin vs. Sublattice Spin -- Spin Dynamics in High-Mobility Two-Dimensional Electron Systems -- Magnetization Dynamics of Coupled Ferromagnetic-Antiferromagnetic Thin Films -- Magnetic and Electronic Properties of Heusler Alloy Films Investigated by X-Ray Magnetic Circular Dichroism -- Coherent Spin Dynamics in Nanostructured Semiconductor-Ferromagnet Hybrids -- Organic Materials and Water -- Coupling of Paramagnetic Biomolecules to Ferromagnetic Surfaces -- Band Alignment in Organic Materials -- Organometallic Nanojunctions Probed by Different Chemistries: Thermo-, Photo-, and Mechano-Chemistry -- When It Helps to Be Purely Hamiltonian: Acceleration of Rare Events and Enhanced Escape Dynamics -- Liquid Polyamorphism and the Anomalous Behavior of Water -- Dynamical Effects, Rectification and Nonlinearities -- Terahertz Detection of Many-Body Signatures in Semiconductor Heterostructures -- Theory of Ultrafast Dynamics of Electron-Phonon Interactions in Two Dimensional Electron Gases: Semiconductor Quantum Wells, Surfaces and Graphene -- Optical Microcavities as Quantum-Chaotic Model Systems: Openness Makes the Difference! -- Nonlinear Transport Properties of Electron Y-Branch Switches -- Rectification Through Entropic Barriers -- Characterization of Materials and Devices -- Microstructure Tomography - An Essential Tool to Understand 3D Microstructures and Degradation Effects -- Profiling of Fiber Texture Gradients by Anomalous X-ray Diffraction -- Film Production Methods in Precision Optics -- Advanced Metrology for Next Generation Transistors.