Advanced Materials, Nanotechnology and Engineering

Track 16: Molecular biology and Materials science

Nanostructures are the fundamental machines that drive the cell histones and proteosomes and they are components of the mitochondrion, the chloroplast, the ribosome, and the replication and transcription complexes. In catalysis, nanostructures are the templates and pores of zeolites and other vitally important structures.The nanometer length scale is the largest one over which a crystal can be made essentially perfect. The ability to exactly control the arrangements of impurities and defects with reference to one another , and therefore the ability to integrate perfect inorganic and organic nanostructures, holds forth the promise of a totally new generation of advanced composites.