The ability to build, probe, and control materials and structures at dimensions below 100 nm lies at the core of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology and is fueling innovations that will benefit society in profound ways. In the Wind group, we seek to bring order to the nanoscale by developing new strategies for the creation of integrated nanosystems with single molecule/nanostructure control. Of particular interest are systems at the interface between the physical and life sciences, where the precision engineering of semiconductor technologies is combined with the exquisite chemical recognition of biomolecules to create new opportunities for probing biomolecular and cellular systems, on the one hand, and for assembling and probing functional nanomaterials, on the other. The ultimate goal is to create new, increasingly complex nanoassemblies where new phenomena and scientific principles emerge from the precise organization of individual molecules/nanostructures into integrated nanosystems.