Invited Paper NS-TuM12
Bio-inspired Nanosystems for Healthcare Applications

Tuesday, November 8, 2016, 11:40 am, Room 101D

Nanotechnology offers efficient solutions for virtually all areas of science and technology spanning from energy to healthcare technologies. Owing to rapid development of synthesis, nanofabrication and characterization techniques today we are able to engineer advanced hybrid nanosystems from scratch, at atomic and molecular scale, through controlled assembly of nanoparticles and molecules toward practical devices. Biological phenomena such as self-assembly, electron transfer, photosynthesis and enzyme catalysis, and magnetic field sensing have been a source of inspiration for engineers and scientists. We are using both nature’s blueprints and biostructure building blocks for developing smart nano-bio hybrids and devices and then interface them with living systems of various levels of complexity towards advancing modern therapeutic, sensing, imaging and diagnostic methods.