This course aims at showing how the concepts and techniques of nanosciences can be used to describe biological system functions at the nanometer scale and to derive potential applications. Particular emphasis will concern energy capture and storage mechanisms and their interconversions: light, chemical and mechanical energy, information transfer.
Topics :
I- Analysis of main energy conversion and storage systems - Bioenergetics
II- Conversion of chemical and mechanical energy
III- Conversion of energy into information transfer