Nanotechnology applications

The CA is a powerful paradigm for pattern formation and self-organization, an area of increasing importance in nanotechnology. CA have not yet been extensively used in nanotechnology applications, though their use in quantum dot applications is growing. 

Nanotechnology Application Centre, University of Allahabad, Allahabad 211002, India e-mail ranu.duttal6 gmail.com prof.avinashcpandey gmail.com... 

Acknowledgements Authors are thankful to the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India, for supporting the Nanotechnology Application Centre under Nano-Mission and NMITLI schemes. 

Rajagopal, K., and Schneider, J. P. (2004). Self-assembling peptides and proteins for nanotechnological applications. Curr. Opin. Struct. Biol. 14, 480-486. 

The possibilities afforded by SAM-controlled electrochemical metal deposition were already demonstrated some time ago by Sondag-Huethorst et al. [36] who used patterned SAMs as templates to deposit metal structures with line widths below 100 nm. While this initial work illustrated the potential of SAM-controlled deposition on the nanometer scale further activities towards technological exploitation have been surprisingly moderate and mostly concerned with basic studies on metal deposition on uniform, alkane thiol-based SAMs [37-40] that have been extended in more recent years to aromatic thiols [41-43]. A major reason for the slow development of this area is that electrochemical metal deposition with, in principle, the advantage of better control via the electrochemical potential compared to none-lectrochemical methods such as electroless metal deposition or evaporation, is quite critical in conjunction with SAMs. Relying on their ability to act as barriers for charge transfer and particle diffusion, the minimization of defects in and control of the structural quality of SAMs are key to their performance and set the limits for their nanotechnological applications. 

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Sally L. Gras, Surface- and Solution-Based Assembly of Amyloid Fibrils for Biomedical and Nanotechnology Applications... 

Another example comes from the benzo-fused derivatives of nucleic acid bases, which have been conceived of as potential building blocks to develop modified DNA duplexes with nanotechnological applications [74], These benzo-fused bases consist of a benzene unit inserted between the six- and five-membered rings of purines, and of the same... 

In conclusion, the potential of soluble, nanosized metallodendrimers as catalysts in homogeneous reactions is well-consolidated. Future applications of these species are foreseen in high-tech nanotechnology applications in the fields of nano- and microreactors, cascade catalysis, and catalytic biomonitoring and biosensing. In this respect, the recent use of noncovalent strategies for the construction of multicomponent catalytic assemblies, and the use of biomacromolecules within dendritic structures is intriguing [60-62,92,93]. 

Minolli D. Nanotechnology Applications to Telecommunications and Networking. Hoboken, NJ Wiley-Interscience, 2006. 

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