2007 Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology for Biological/Biomedical/Chemical Sensing; held City University of Hong Kong; June 3-8, 2007.

纳米技术操控原子和分子的能力使我们能够创造出具有全新特性和前所未有功能的纳米材料和新型器件结构。利用纳米科学机会开发化学和生物传感器的关键是将生物、化学、工程、材料、医学和物理等不同领域结合起来，以了解新一代传感器的可能性和必要性。查明差距使跨学科团队能够组建和分享专门知识，以便在开发新能力方面取得重大进展。这次会议有邀请和贡献的演讲、小组讨论、海报会议和较小的讨论时间，所有这些都是为了探索机会，找出差距，发展合作。纳米科学和纳米技术的最新进展为应用和商业化打开了无数机会。纳米技术预计将导致我们生活的方方面面发生巨大变化，不仅代表着制造前所未有的功能纳米材料的新颖和独特的化学策略，而且通过相关的诊断和治疗提供更好的健康和更长的寿命。这次全面的国际会议将教育科学家和学生，并促进这一领域的现状和未来机会的智力交流。

Nanotechnology's ability to manipulate atoms and molecules enables us to create nanoscale materials and novel device structures with fundamentally new properties and unprecedented functions. The key to exploiting opportunities in nanoscience for chemical and biological sensors is putting together the diverse fields of biology, chemistry, engineering, materials, medicine and physics to understand both what is possible and what is needed for new generations of sensors. Identifying gaps enables interdisciplinary teams to form and to share expertise in order to make significant progress in developing new capabilities. This conference has a mixture of invited and contributed talks, panel discussions, poster sessions, and time for smaller discussions, all with the aim of exploring opportunities, identifying gaps, and developing collaborations.Recent advances in nanoscience and nanotechnology have opened up myriad opportunities for applications and commercialization. Nanotechnology is anticipated to lead to dramatic changes in every aspect of our lives, not only representing novel and unique chemical strategies to make unprecedented functional nanomaterials, but also delivering better health and longer life spans through related diagnosis and therapy. This full-scale international meeting will educate scientists and students and promote the intellectual exchange of the current status of and future opportunities in this area.