Nanohandling of Biomaterials

Currently, there is an increasing interest in handling, understanding, and integrating biological systems important for biomedicine, process industry, pharmacy, and biomaterial research. Besides this interest, the demand for adequate, nondestructive, automatable, and fully controllable handling, manipulation, and characterization techniques increases as well. Thanks to the advancements in micro- and nanofabrication and in the robotics area, several approaches and techniques offer us the ability to set up robotic systems, which are able to handle biomaterials down to the nanoscale. In this chapter, some of the most applicable techniques for a robotic and automated use are shown, including advantages and disadvantages as well as current applications and the necessary biological backgrounds for the most common biomaterials a researcher will handle today. So the state of the art for the nanohandling of biomaterials, applicable in current robotic systems and possibly applicable in future robotic systems, is shown as well as our own work on this special field of research.

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