Toward biologically built electronic systems: may progress be quick
My alma mater, U of Minnesota, is collaborating with UCLA and other universities under a DOD award to study biologically assembled electronics. The study builds upon work by professor Richard A. Kiehl at the home of the Gophers in which he demonstrated metallic nanoparticle assembly by DNA scaffolding. While the researchers have not touted the energy saving potential of such precise biological assembly of nanoparticle arrays, there is every reason to believe that such a process would be more energy efficient than the 1,400oF process used in the fabrication of most silicon based semiconductors today.
