Physical systems and information theory algorithms - description and nature synthetic nanostructures as quantum control systems Langmuir-Blodgett techniques spectroscopy of single molecules in solids charging effects - single-electron tunnelling dynamical repertoire of interacting networks electron motion in lateral superlattices on semiconductors controlled electronic transfer in molecular chains and segments cooperative optical properties of interacting charge transfer subunits ensemble properties and applications electric field effects on persistent spectral hole burning and applications in photonics persistent spectral hole burning and its application in optical data storage and processing holographic spectral hole burning - from data storage to information processing biomolecular electronics and optical computing bacteriorhodopsin - optical processor molecules from nature? prospects of molecular electronics.