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Lesson Three Today, I want to tell you about a couple of projects that our group has been developing over the past few years, both of which deal with the general area of nanotechnology. We are very excited about this work because we think it will lead to a general methodology for preparing nanostructured materials with predefined, synthetically programmable properties from common inorganic building blocks and readily available DNA interconnect molecules. The intellectual payoffs from this work will be a greater understanding of (1) the collective interactions between nanoscale building blocks in the context of organic materials and (2) the physical and chemical consequences of miniaturization. The technological payoffs range from the development of new and useful types of DNA detection strategies to high-performance catalyst and, perhaps, even to the realization of bioelectronic nanocircuitry. Advances in nanotechnology will require us to utilize techniques and concepts from almost every area of science and engineering. I want to emphasize that synthetic chemists in general, and inorganic chemists in particular, have much to offer this emerging field. Traditional, inorganic chemists have been very good at crossing and merging disciplines in order to ask and answer key questions in modern science. As you will see, an appreciation of the techniques, skills, and fundamental concepts used broadly in the fields of chemistry, materials science, physic, and even biochemistry is essential to make the projects that I am going to discuss today successful. Nanothnology Nanotechnology is a field aimed at fabricating, studying, manipulating, and exploiting the properties of structure with dimensions on the nanometer length scales. Prior to the invention of the scanning tunneling microscope, nanotechnology was a topic primarily discussed by science fiction writers rather than conventional scientists. Scanning probe instruments, which enable one easily manipulate structures