Research Strategy Workshop for Biotronics
Abstract
Investigating the electronic, magnetic, photonic, and phononic interactions with matter are fundamental to many scientific fields, and developing routes to manipulate these interactions underpin numerous technological innovations. By leveraging such previous scientific discoveries, transformative advances in nano-electronics and photonics have enabled the development of a wide range of technologies ranging from neural probes, flexible solar cells, and quantum circuits. Given this past success and recent advances in computational power, researchers are now poised to pursue the next frontier of research challenges that require an unprecedented level of collaboration between disciplines. These types of convergent research questions that could transform our understanding are exemplified by those in the biophysical domain. This workshop will examine the opportunities for new research challenges and opportunities to explore the biological processes in the single cell and its immediate environment. The focus will be on unique sensing of biophysical phenomena within single cells and among their organelles, unique device and instrumentation for modulating these intracellular processes, studies of the roles of these single cellular processes in constructing multi-cellular networks, and new data analyses tools for complex biophysical data sets. The emphasis is on a new level of biophysical understanding of the intracellular processes by exploiting their interfaces with electronic, magnetic, photonic, and phononic systems. The purpose of the workshop to define for the scientific community at large a new field of bio-electronics, to be called biotronics, and to provide a road map for its development. The purpose is not primarily an exchange of recent research results. We encourage forward looking and bold ideas.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Feb 14, 2019
- Source ID
- W911NF1910103
Entities
People
- Bozhi Tian
Organizations
- Army Contracting Command
- United States Army
- University of Chicago