This article is concerned with the existence, status and description of the so-called emergent phenomena believed to occur in certain principally planar electronic systems. In fact, two distinctly different if inseparable tasks are accomplished. First, a rigorous mathematical model is proposed of emergent character, which is conceptually bonded with QuantumMechanics while apparently non-derivab...

A multiscale simulation is presented to study the proton-conducting polyelectrolyte membrane Nafion for a fuel cell. Firstly, the mesoscopic structure of the hydrated Nafion membrane was predicted by dissipative particle dynamics simulation. In this method, a molecular structure is represented using a coarse-grained model, and the interaction parameters are estimated by calculating the energy o...

Thermodynamic and transport properties of mesoscopic conductors are strongly influenced by the proximity of a superconductor: An interplay between the large scale quantum coherent wave functions in the normal mesoscopic and the superconducting region, respectively, leads to unusual mechanisms of quantum interference. These manifest themselves in both the mean and the mesoscopic fluctuation beha...