This symposium will cover recent advances in BioMolecular Electronics. In particular, the focus will be on recent advances in measuring and tuning the charge transport through individual biomolecules or biological complexes. The first part will focus on the latest experimental advances in charge transport measurements in biomolecules at the single-molecule level, including self-assembling approaches that use biomolecules to generate nanostructures and nanodevices. The second will highlight computational methods and emerging data analysis, such as Machine Learning applied to study these fascinating systems. Joint sessions will be flexible, too, including combined and synergistic research to stimulate discussions.

Materials science in general, and nanoscience and nanotechnology, in particular, have promised multiple applications enabled by an unprecedented control of matter. One of them is the ultimate miniaturization of electronic components and circuits to the scale of individual molecules. This exciting field is known as Molecular Electronics. Shortly after opening the door for reliable single-molecule conductance measurements, biomolecules were also considered for these studies. The field of single-molecule bioelectronics has experienced a boom in the last decades. Nanoscience tools such as Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM) or Break-Junctions have enabled single-molecule electronic studies of biomolecules, including nucleic acids, peptides, redox proteins, and more complex biosystems. BioMolecular Electronics is an emerging field with applications that may contribute to solving present and future societal challenges.

biological biological synthesis (assembly) biomimetic (assembly) DNA electrical properties electronic structure nanoscale protein scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) self-assembly