Transcript There is still plenty of room at the bottom*

…there is still plenty of room at
the bottom*
Andrea Giansanti
Dipartimento di Fisica
Sapienza Università di Roma
[email protected]
“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