New Branch of Nanoscience
29 December 2007Nanobioelectronics, a new interdisciplinary science is rapidly growing. The new developing discipline provides opportunities of research by combining nanoelectronics and molecular biology. The new discipline provides the study of charge transports in biological molecules.
Various researchers have already developed some approaches to nanobioelectronics such as DNA based nanocables, storage devices, electronic sensors and logical components. The other applications include the use of biomolecules for building molecular structures of nanosize are being explored.
The main advantages of biomolecules such as RNA (ribonucleic acid), DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), proteins and biomembranes is that these structures are comparable with sizes of nanotubes, nanoparticles etc.
If scientists are able to successfully combine biomaterials with semiconducting particles, metal particles or carbon nanotubes, a new class of material will be obtained. These new bioelectronics devices can then be used for various applications including hybrid biosensors, nanoelectronic circuits, nanoengines, nanotransporters etc.
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