Interfacing biology with nanomaterials: Why don't the pieces fit well together? It's the chemistry stupid!

摘要

Incredible progress continues to be made in elucidating the structure/function of biomolecules to the point where de novo biologicals with designer properties such as peptide nucleic acids, for example, are now a reality. Likewise, similar progress is continually being made for many nanomaterials with unique physiochemical and optoelectronic properties including semiconductor quantum dots (QDs), metal or other nanoparticles (NPs) along with carbon-based nanotubes and fullerenes.