Bioelectronic Materials

Due to their exceptional conductivity, flexibility, and small size, materials that are soft, light, and ultra-thin, such carbon nanotubes, graphene, and other 2D nanomaterials, conductive polymers, gold nanoparticles, and quantum dots, are ideally suited for bioelectronic applications. In order to create innovative gadgets and information processing systems, bioelectronics uses biological materials and biological designs. Specifically, bio-molecular electronics was defined as "the research and development of bio-inspired (i.e. self-assembly) inorganic and organic materials and of bio-inspired (i.e. massive parallelism) hardware architectures for the implementation of new information processing systems, sensors, and actuators, as well as for molecular manufacturing down to the atomic scale." In a 2009 paper, the US Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an organisation, provided a definition of bioelectronics as described as "the field emerging from the fusion of biology and electronics." Bionics and biomaterials for information processing, information storage, electrical components, and actuators are just a few examples of how bioelectronics seeks to utilise biology in combination with electronics in a broader context. The intersection of biological materials and micro- and nano-electronics is crucial.