ABSTRACT
Components................................................................................................421 15.5 Nanowires at Interfaces: Properties and Assembly Strategies ..................426
15.5.1 Controlling Particle-Surface Interactions ...................................426 15.5.2 Nanowire Assembly in Lithographically Defined Wells ............427 15.5.3 Diffusion of Nanowires on Surfaces...........................................428 15.5.4 Biomolecular Recognition in Nanowire Assembly ....................430
15.6 Conclusions ................................................................................................431 Acknowledgments..................................................................................................432 References..............................................................................................................432
In their efforts to move the seemingly remote goal of molecular-scale electronics ever closer to demonstrable reality, chemists, physicists, materials scientists, and engineers are looking to their diverse skills for the tools to build functional circuits from the bottom up. The pressure to make faster, smaller, more densely arranged computing elements is pushing traditional lithographic technologies to their theoretical and practical limits. While the life span of the top-down approach is being
