BIOELECTRONIC INTERFACING - MICRO-FABRICATION AND NANOFABRICATION TECHNIQUES FOR GENERATING PREDETERMINED MOLECULAR ARRAYS

Cross-disciplinary activity among the fields of biology, chemistry and electronics has steadily gained momentum in recent years, and defined areas for cooperative research and development are emerging. At the technology level, this has [ed to the possibility of adapting techniques developed for micro- or nanofabrication of integrated circuits for the manipulation of molecules on surfaces. There are wide-ranging applications for these methods in many areas; this article describes some of them and speculates on possible future developments.