Nanodevices Based on Proteins: the Emerging Science of Proteotronics

Abstract

Different scientific disciplines, from biochemistry to electronics, are converging toward the investigation of nanodevices useful for biological, medical and electronic applications. The strategies to attempt this aim are therefore more and more interconnected and innovative so that it is legitimate to announce the born of a new discipline, the proteotronics. Proteotronics has the main objective to propose and develop innovative electronic devices, based on the selective action of specific proteins.