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This work was partly supported by the fund for Leading Project Next Generation Fuel Cells of the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture, Sports, and Technology of Japan. 

The authors are grateful to K. Tsutsui, T. Tohyama and Y. Ono for useful discussions. This work was supported by Priority-Areas Grants from the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport of Japan, CREST-JST and NAREGI. 

Acknowledgement. The authors would like to acknowledge Y. Kimura for target fabrication. Part of this work was performed under the auspices of the science foundations of the JSPS (Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science) and the MEXT (Ministry of Education, Science, Culture, and Sports) in Japan. 

The authors are deeply indebted to the work of all collaborators and co-workers whose names are listed in the references of this chapter (in particular, S.F. Prof K. M. Kadish, Prof K. Mikami and Prof O. Ito DMG Prof K.-D. Asmus, Prof M. Maggini, Prof N. Martin and Prof M. Prato). S.F. acknowledges continuous support of his study on electron-transfer chemistry by a Grant-in-Aid from the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports, Japan. D.M.G. acknowledges the support by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences of the Department of Energy. This is document NDRL-4267 from the Notre Dame Radiation Laboratory). We would like to thank Drs. H. Imahori and C. Luo for their helpful discussion. 

This work was partially supported by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Area Molecular Physical Chemistry and the Research Grant No.l0440179 from The Ministry of Education, Science. Culture, and Sports of Japan, and also by Russian National Foundation for Fundamental Research. 

Polymer Division, and one of the Editors of the Journal of Polymer Science, Part A, Polymer Chemistry. He is also the principal investigator of a research project "Sequence-Regulated Macromolecules" (2006-10 Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research Creation of Novel Academic Disciplines) and the project leader of the Kyoto University Global Center of Excellence (GCOE) Project "Integrated Materials Science" (2007-11), both granted by the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture, and Sports, Japan via the Japan Society for Promotion of Science. 

This work was financially supported in part by a Grand-in-Aid from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports, Nos. 20360341 and 21656193, and by The Light Metal Educational Eoundation Inc. 

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