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ANIRBAN BANDYOPADHYAY
The BBC article
Chemical Brain Controls Nanobots said
A tiny chemical "brain" which could one day act as a remote control for
swarms of nano-machines has been invented.
The molecular device — just two billionths of a meter across —
was able
to control eight of the microscopic machines simultaneously in a test.
If [in the future] you want to remotely operate on a tumor you might
want to send some molecular machines there," explained Dr Anirban
Bandyopadhyay of the International Center for Young Scientists, Tsukuba,
Japan.
"But you cannot just put them into the blood and [expect them] to go to
the right place."
Dr Bandyopadhyay believes his device may offer a solution. One day they
may be able to guide the nanobots through the body and control their
functions, he said.
"That kind of device simply did not exist; this is the first time we
have created a nano-brain," he told BBC News.
Anirban Bandyopadhyay, Ph.D. is Senior Researcher
at the Japan
National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS).
NIMS is Japan's sole Independent Administrative Institution (IAI)
specializing in materials science and is charged with basic research
and development of materials science, and to advance the level of
expertise in the field.
Anirban is affiliated with the NIMS
Advanced Nano Characterisation Center
(ANCC).
Anirban was engaged in
storing memory bits in plastics,
large
conductance switching for computer chips using a simple sandwich
structure
of organic molecules, and he demonstrated the extreme potentials of
bio-inspired
supramolecular structures.
At Sheffield (2003-2004), he mimicked Gutenburg's
printing with molecules, and built the first
neural network using
DNA as a template and he
enhanced solar cell response using a DNA base.
Working as
an
independent researcher at the
International Center for Young Scientists
for the last three years (2005-2007), Anirban has been building a
massive parallel processor that will be as powerful as our brain.
Recently he
discovered the first
single molecule multilevel switch that processes
four
decisions (0, 1, 2, 3) instead of two (0, 1) as used in existing
computers. Using this switch, he has demonstrated real
parallel
communication in a nano-brain. This may have an important
impact
in creating
nano-factories, intelligent computers, and nano-doctors. He
is presently working on building an "artificial lifeform" on an
organic monolayer so that the ultimate computing power of
his massive parallel processor
can be
realized practically.
He earned his Masters of Science in Condensed Matter Physics,
Computer, Numerical Analysis, and Astrophysics from
North Bengal
University, India in 2000. He earned his
Doctor of Philosophy in Physics from Jadavpur University and
the
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science specializing in
Organic memory-switching devices in 2005.
He has been working as an independent researcher at the International
Center for Young Scientists (ICYS) for the last three years
(February 1, 2004 - March 31, 2008).
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