"Biology Inspired Nanotechnology"

Uri Sivan, The Technion

Nanotechnology is usually advertised as the art of making small things. A
far more interesting aspect of Nanotechnology concerns the fact that in
order to benefit from these dimensions man will have to learn how to
assemble useful constructs that are orders of magnitude more complex than
anything we can presently design, build, or check. Indeed, biology handles
the tremendous complexity found there by different strategies compared with
man made engineering.

Inspired by biology I will describe our efforts to harness some of its
principles and tools for the construction of molecular scale electronics.