Dear Readers,

Welcome to our new cross-disciplinary journal devoted to self-assembly and molecular electronics. These are the two pillars that are required to fulfill the dream of bottom-up nanotechnology. This journal will be open to both theoretical and experimental works coming from all walks of science and engineering: Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Material Science, Mechanical, Electrical and Medical Engineering, Bio- and Nanotechnology. We envisage the journal as a part of a much broader platform with the aim to create a stimulating environment for interdisciplinary communications and thriving scientific community in this exciting field of science. Encompassing the journal contributions, the biennial conference on this subject, regular schools and workshops, this platform will provide an inspiring and broad discussion forum to promote and advance this field of science.
The first issue, which we are proud to present, addresses the topic of DNAbased molecular electronics. DNA is not only the corner stone of life on earth carrying the assembly instructions for all living organisms, but also proved to be an amazing tool in nanotechnology. DNA-arrays and DNA-origami demonstrate how the assembly of this molecule into a particular shape can be encoded into its sequence. On the other hand, the potential application of DNA building blocks for molecular electronics highly depends on its longrange charge transfer properties which are still highly debated. This journal issue presents several research papers and reviews on theoretical and experimental methods required to construct such DNA-based devices.

Full papers are freely available at the journal web site no registration or payment is required.

We invite You to submit your reviews or original research articles to the Journal

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Table of Content, Volume 1, issue 1 (Jan 2013)

Modeling Charge Transport and Dynamics in Biomolecular Systems

R. Gutierrez¹ and G. Cuniberti^1,2
1Institute for Materials Science and Max Bergmann Center of Biomaterials,Dresden University of Technology, 01062 Dresden, Germany
²Division of IT Convergence Engineering and National Center forNanomaterials Technology, POSTECH, Pohang 790-784, Republic of Korea;

Interaction of DNA Bases with Gold Substrates

Marta Rosa, Wenming Sun and Rosa Di Felice
Center S3, CNR Institute of Nanoscience, Via Campi 213/A, 41125 Modena, Italy

Synthesis and Properties of Conjugates between Silver Nanoparticles and DNA-PNA Hybrids

Gennady Eidelshtein¹, Shay Halamish¹, Irit Lubitz¹, Marcello Anzola², Clelia Giannini² and Alexander Kotlyar^1
1Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences and The Center of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv 69978, Israel
²Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Venezian 21, 20133 Milano, Italy

Formation of Dimers Composed of a Single Short dsDNA Connecting Two Gold Nanoparticles

Haya Dachlika, Avigail Stern, Dvir Rotem and Danny Porath
Institute of Chemistry and The Harvey M. Krueger Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91904 Jerusalem, Israel

Self-Assembled DNA-Based Structures for Nanoelectronics

Veikko Linko¹ and J. Jussi Toppari^2
1Physics Department, Walter Schottky Institute, TechnischeUniversitätMünchen, 85748 Garching near Munich, Germany
²Department of Physics, Nanoscience Center, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35, 40014Jyväskylä, Finland

Molecular Combing of DNA: Methods and Applications

Zeinab Esmail Nazari and Leonid Gurevich
Institute of Physics and Nanotechnology, Aalborg University, 9220 Aalborg, Denmark