This book presents the structure formation and dynamics of animate and
inanimate matter on the nanometre scale. This is a new interdisciplinary
field known as Meso-Bio-Nano (MBN) science that lies at the intersection
of physics, chemistry, biology and material science. Special attention
in the book is devoted to investigations of the structure, properties
and dynamics of complex MBN systems by means of photonic, electronic,
heavy particle and atomic collisions. This includes problems of fusion
and fission, fragmentation, surfaces and interfaces, reactivity,
nanoscale phase and morphological transitions, irradiation-driven
transformations of complex molecular systems, collective electron
excitations, radiation damage and biodamage, channeling phenomena and
many more. Emphasis in the book is placed on the theoretical and
computational physics research advances in these areas and related
state-of-the-art experiments. Particular attention in the book is
devoted to the utilization of advanced computational techniques and
high-performance computing in studies of the dynamics of systems.