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Nano-Bio-Sensing
Sandro Carrara
Editor
Nano-Bio-Sensing
Foreword by Giovanni De Micheli
Editor Sandro Carrara EPFL Lausanne Switzerland sandro.cararra@epfl.ch
ISBN 978-1-4419-6168-6 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-6169-3 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-6169-3 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London
Library of Congress Control Number: 2010938597 # Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer ScienceþBusiness Media (www.springer.com)
Foreword
Much of our economy and way of living will be affected by nanotechnologies in the decade to come and beyond. Mastering materials at the molecular level and their interaction with living matter opens up unforeseeable horizons. Still much of the potentials of nano-biotechnology is untapped. Although we understand most basic principles of molecular interaction, the transformation of scientific results into robust technologies that can support health care and environment protection has still to take place. In other words, we are at the verge of a technological revolution that will bring to us a multitude of bio-electronic devices that interact with biological systems through intelligent – and possibly distributed – means of computation. The recent strong
Sandro Carrara
Editor
Nano-Bio-Sensing
Foreword by Giovanni De Micheli
Editor Sandro Carrara EPFL Lausanne Switzerland sandro.cararra@epfl.ch
ISBN 978-1-4419-6168-6 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-6169-3 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-6169-3 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London
Library of Congress Control Number: 2010938597 # Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer ScienceþBusiness Media (www.springer.com)
Foreword
Much of our economy and way of living will be affected by nanotechnologies in the decade to come and beyond. Mastering materials at the molecular level and their interaction with living matter opens up unforeseeable horizons. Still much of the potentials of nano-biotechnology is untapped. Although we understand most basic principles of molecular interaction, the transformation of scientific results into robust technologies that can support health care and environment protection has still to take place. In other words, we are at the verge of a technological revolution that will bring to us a multitude of bio-electronic devices that interact with biological systems through intelligent – and possibly distributed – means of computation. The recent strong