Our laboratory focuses on the "bottom-up" paradigm for nanoscience and nanotechnology. We are enabling this concept through a highly interdisciplinary research program focused on the design and synthesis of nanoscale building blocks, elucidation of the fundamental electronic, optical and other physical properties of these building blocks, and the development of methods for hierarchical organization of building blocks into increasingly complex integrated assemblies. We use the bottom-up paradigm as the underlying approach for exploring new science and applications in diverse areas, including the interface between biology and nanoscience, nanoelectronics, nanophotonics, and information processing. Our laboratory has dedicated efforts in all of these areas.