Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Proceedings of the INFN-LNF 2018 Conference

The results presented in this volume highlight some of the most recent advances in nanoscience and nanotechnology studies from both the physical and chemical point of view with an eye also to possible engineering applications.These studies demonstrate directly how effective and at the same time stimulating is implementing the cross-fertilization procedure. Indeed multidisciplinary research allows one to catch more easily the analogies inherent different areas of science as well as to take advantage and optimize different methods and techniques often borrowed from other research areas.In the present Special Issue we included six published papers. The latter contributions on the one hand are developed at the theory level and on the other hand show experimental results on the realization and experimental characterization of nanostructured systems suitable for yielding progress towards the realization of systems and devices that can ultimately lead to industrial applications. The results show that recent scientific research advances in these areas may provide important steps in the direction of fostering innovation and technological development.