A000424 - BIONANOTECNOLOGY

Nanotechnology is the emerging science of objects that are intermediate in size between the largest molecules and the smallest structures that can be fabricated by current photolithography; that is, the science of objects with dimensions ranging from a few nanometers to hundreds of nanometers.
In chemistry, nanometer sizes have historically been associated with colloids, micelles, polymer molecules, phase-separated regions in block copolymers, and similar structures. In physics, nanoscience is most often associated with the behavior of electrons and photons in nanoscale structures. Biology and biochemistry also have a deep interest in nanostructures, as many of the most interesting structures in biology—from DNA, proteins and viruses to subcellular organelles and gap junctions—can be considered as nanostructures.
Nanotechnology is therefore characterized by a vigorous trade across the borders of physics, chemistry and biology, very often also involving engineering and/or medicine.
Starting from this scene, the module will be focused on biological and translational applications of nanotechnology, where engineering, physics and chemistry offer the tools for synthesis and fabrication of nanosystems, biology offers the window into the most sophisticated collection of functional nanostructures that exists, and medicine offers a wide range of potential, breakthrough applications.