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…there is still plenty of room at the bottom*. Andrea Giansanti Dipartimento di Fisica Sapienza Università di Roma Andrea.Giansanti@roma1.infn.it. “It is an unwritten rule on Nature Nanotechnology that Richard Feynman's famous 1959 lecture 'There's plenty of room at the bottom'
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…there is still plenty of room at the bottom* Andrea Giansanti Dipartimento di Fisica Sapienza Università di Roma Andrea.Giansanti@roma1.infn.it
“It is an unwritten rule on Nature Nanotechnology that Richard Feynman's famous 1959 lecture 'There's plenty of room at the bottom' should not be referred to at the start of articles unless absolutely necessary.” Nature Nanotechnology 4, 781 (2009) doi:10.1038/nnano.2009.356
4.1 pN nm kBTamb A kind of manifesto: Inside a cell thermal and deterministic forces are on an equal footing R. Phillips, S. R. Quake, The biological frontier of physics, Phys. Today 2006.
Something new at Sapienza • Perestroika of the biophysics courses • 2011-2012 • Computational • Molecular Biology • Theoretical Biophysics • BioPhysics 2 • Next generation sequencing • Functional genomics • Metabolic nets • Optical tweezers • Femtosecond spectroscopy of proteins • AFM • biofilms 9 /2 /2012 Laboratory of Nanotechnology and Nanosciences (dir prof.Maria Sabrina Sarto) starts operations
What is inside a cell? A lot of nanodevices (… + water + ions + osmolytes)
…a crowd of nanostructures embedded in a wet interface Compute h trough biology, through unintelligently designed and assembled materials