The dream of developing a biocomputer should not be dismissed as a sheer fantasy. Although there is naturally some doubt as to whether it is possible to design a computer using carbon-based components as in living organisms, instead of silicon-based components as in existing computers, the fact that an average brain often outperforms the most sophisticated computer in terms of the complexity of tasks, if not in terms of speed, is a living testimony to this possibility. The remaining question is to what extent a biocomputer can mimic a living organism and whether it is possible to design and fabri cate such a biocomputer within the foreseeable future. This volume does not attempt to provide immediate and exact answers to these questions but instead attempts to provide a vision and a progress report of the initial efforts. This volume is mainly a collection of papers presented at the Symposium on Molecular Electronics - Biosensors and Biocomputers, sponsored by the Divi sion of Biotechnology, Health and Environment of the Fine Particle Society, held from July 19-22, 1989 at the Society's 19th Annual Meeting in Santa Clara, California. Also included are articles contributed by those who planned to attend the conference but were unable to do so. The emergence of the field of molecular electronics is largely the consequence of one person's crusade, that of Forrest L. Carter.
Erscheinungsdatum: 13.06.2012

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Springer Nature, New York, NY, 2012

Boston, MA, Massachusetts, 1989

Jun 13, 2012

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Front Matter....Pages i-xii
A Pioneer in Molecular Electronics....Pages 1-1
Forrest L. Carter Lecture: Organized Monolayers — Building Blocks in Constructing Supramolecular Devices....Pages 3-24
Syntheses of Electrically Conductive LB Films and Host-Guest LB Films of Cyclodextrins and Azobenzenes....Pages 25-31
Artificial Structure of Metal Complexes by Selective Coordination Epitaxy....Pages 33-39
Industrial Scale Production of L-B Layers....Pages 41-49
Depth Profiling in Organic Thin Films with Optical Guided Waves....Pages 51-57
Synchrotron X-Ray Studies on Lipid Monolayers....Pages 59-68
Fluorescence Image Analysis of the Spatial Organization of Lipid Layers....Pages 69-76
Electrochemical Processes in Membrane Channels and Biosynthetic Structures....Pages 77-81
Electroconformational Coupling: A Fundamental Process of Biomolecular Electronics for Signal Transductions....Pages 83-95
The Role of Solvent Permittivity Dispersion in Electrostatic Interactions in Proteins....Pages 97-104
An Electrochemical Approach to the Design of Membrane-Based Molecular Optoelectronic Devices....Pages 105-114
Biomolecular Electronics: Structure ↔ Function Relationship....Pages 115-123
Synthetic Models for Photoinduced Electron Transfer Reactions....Pages 125-130
Electron Transfer Rates in Mitochondrial Proteins: Regulation and Specificity....Pages 131-140
Dye Binding to Polytryptophan and Lysine-Tryptophan Copolymer: Electron Transfer Quenching by Biopolymer Pendant Groups....Pages 141-147
Photoactive Interfacially Polymerized Polyporphyrin Films....Pages 149-157
Light Energy Transducing and Signal Transducing Rhodopsins of Halobacteria ....Pages 159-163
Visual Phototransduction: Biochemical Aspects....Pages 165-171
Biological Photosensors: Phytochrome and Stentorin....Pages 173-186
Animal Rhodopsin as a Photoelectric Generator....Pages 187-201
A Correlation between Photocycle and Photoelectric Response of Bacteriorhodopsin Monomers....Pages 203-212
Neurons as Microprocessors with a Kind of Memory Function....Pages 213-222
Phase Wave and Perception of Amoeboid Cells....Pages 223-230
Microtubules: Possible Application to Computer Technologies....Pages 231-241
Information Processing in Microtubules: Biomolecular Automata and Nanocomputers....Pages 243-257
BLM-Based Biosensors and Devices: Applications and Future Prospects....Pages 259-268
Biomolecular Interface....Pages 269-275
On The Volt-Ampere Characteristics of Molecular Monoelectronic Elements....Pages 277-288
Immobilization of Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide: Implications in Molecular Electronics and Bioengineering....Pages 289-295
ISFET-Like Devices Coupled to Neuroblastoma Cells: Cytometric and Electrical Characterization....Pages 297-304
Incorporation of Ion Channels in Polymerized Membranes and Fabrication of a Biosensor....Pages 305-315
Molecular Sensor Based on Olfactory Transduction....Pages 317-328
Monolayer Molecular Recognition Sites as a Basis for Biosensor Development....Pages 329-337
Au/Langmuir-Blodgett Film/Zn Se Tunnel Injection Light-Emitting Structures....Pages 339-351
Design of a True Molecular Electronic Device: The Electron Transfer Shift Register Memory....Pages 353-360
Ultra High Speed Bacteriorhodopsin Photodetectors....Pages 361-368
Optical Random Access Memory Based on Bacteriorhodopsin....Pages 369-379
Actual Possibilities of Bacteriorhodopsin Application in Optoelectronics....Pages 381-384
Towards the Molecular Computer Factory....Pages 385-395
Ultralow Frequency “Optical” Biocomputers: Biophysical Arguments....Pages 397-405
Mathematical Problems Arising in Molecular Electronics: Global Geometry and Dynamics of the Double-Well Potential....Pages 407-424
Nanoelectronics and Scanning Tunneling Engineering....Pages 425-437
Back Matter....Pages 439-454

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