…there is still plenty of room at the bottom*

Andrea GiansantiDipartimento di Fisica

Sapienza Università di RomaAndrea.Giansanti@roma1.infn.it

Nature Nanotechnology 4, 781 (2009) doi:10.1038/nnano.2009.356

“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.”

4.1 pN nm

R. Phillips, S. R. Quake, The biological frontier of physics, Phys. Today 2006.

Inside a cell thermal and deterministic forces are on an equal footingA kind of manifesto:

kBTamb

Perestroika of the biophysics courses2011-2012

•Computational•Molecular Biology•Theoretical Biophysics•BioPhysics 2

Next generation sequencingFunctional genomicsMetabolic netsOptical tweezersFemtosecond spectroscopy of proteinsAFMbiofilms

9 /2 /2012 Laboratory of Nanotechnology and Nanosciences (dir prof.Maria Sabrina Sarto) starts operations

Something new at Sapienza

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