Nanoelectronics will transform medicine – from innovative new biosensors offering fast, highly sensitive diagnoses and personal body sensors enabling continuous remote monitoring to new prosthetics with bio-implants restoring sight to the blind and hearing to the deaf, and automated drug-delivery implants to prevent conditions such as epileptic fits.
Developers of the Nanoelectronics systems necessary face many challenges – from materials bio-compatibility to achieving phenomenal sensitivities, equivalent to detecting the presence of a grain of salt in an Olympic-sized swimming pool. Demands will also be tough on integration of nanoelectronics devices with optical, mechanical and other systems, while often having to provide life-support reliability.
