Bionanoscience

Bionanoscience is a field of research that has emerged at the interface of nanoscience and biology. Bionanoscience focuses on nanoscale phenomena in biological, biomicking and bioinspired materials and structures. It focuses on fundamental scientific research to advance nanoscience and nanotechnology as well as biology and medicine.

Bionanoscience is that branch of one,which deals with the study and application of nanoscale phenomena in biological,biomicking and bioinspired materials and structures.

Material properties and applications studied in bionanoscience include mechanical properties(e.g. deformation, adhesion, failure), electrical/electronic (e.g. electromechanical stimulation, capacitors, energy storage/batteries), optical (e.g. absorption, luminescence, photochemistry), thermal (e.g. thermomutability, thermal management), biological (e.g. how cells interact with nanomaterials, molecular flaws/defects, biosensing, biological mechanisms s.a. mechanosensing), nanoscience of disease (e.g. genetic disease, cancer, organ/tissue failure), as well as computing (e.g. DNA computing). The impact of bionanoscience, achieved through structural and mechanistic analyses of biological processes at nanoscale, is their translation into synthetic and technological applications through nanotechnology.

This field relies on a variety of research methods, including experimental tools (e.g. imaging, characterization via AFM/optical tweezers etc., x-ray & diffraction based tools, synthesis via self-assembly, recombinant DNA methods, etc.), theory (e.g. statistical mechanics, nanomechanics, etc.), as well as computational approaches (bottom-up multi-scale simulation, supercomputing).