Pollom and Skates: Module 3 Research Proposal Page

Background:

1. The recent work in the Belcher Lab shows that it is possible to create electronic components using biological templates (). The Belcher Lab is currently working on developing M13 bacteriophage templated nanowires and battery electrodes. The development of a biologically templated transistor would complement this work perfectly, as it would potentially enable researchers to create an electronic computer with biologically templated battery, nanowires, user interface (electrochromic device), and CPU (composed of biologically templated transistors). The smallest current transistors range in size from 100 nm to 1 micron (). Biologically templated transistors would be able to compete with current transistors because they would be mostly self-assembled, and their production would involve only environmentally friendly processes.

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