ABSTRACT
This chapter provides the status of nanoscale applications of organic and biological nanotechnology to industry and energy, namely of those capable so far to yield a potential technological progress to electronics, energy and catalysis. Electronic components are normally divided in three classes: passive electronic components, active electronic components and energy electronic components. In modern electronics, technical applications require capacitors of high value, so the aim of the research for passive electronic elements is to obtain a dispositive based on electrolyte with sufficient characteristics of breakdown voltage and capacity. A new generation of active electronic elements has been recently constructed by nanobiotechnology utilizing processes occurring at the nanoscale and based on Langmuir-Blodgett -induced assembly and/or self-assembly of conductive polymers and biopolymers. Technological improvements, allowing manipulating and investigating the properties of nanomaterials, are nowadays changing the approach to the energy storage and power supply vision.
