Nano-bio hybrids for energy conversion applications

Due to their unique properties and characteristics, nanoscale nanomaterials have a significant impact on modern technologies in various fields, opening up new opportunities for innovation and advancement. The convergence between nanomaterials and biological systems, the living and synthetic worlds, has evolved into a new science, nanobiotechnology, which offers tremendous potential for advances in fundamental biological sciences and practical applications, from the sustainable energy to neural modulation through optogenetics. The evolution of a new function of materials, which goes far beyond the individual original inorganic particles and biological molecules, requires a powerful combination of chemical synthesis, manufacturing, synthetic biology and self-assembly into hybrid hierarchical structures.