Nowadays semiconductor industries are actively engaged in developing smaller and smaller transistors, and also researchers are striving hard to develop organic electronics devices in order to utilise in bioelectronicand biomedical applications. Researchers at The Johns Hopkins University have created a water-soluble electronic materials that pontaneously assemble themselves into nanowires. The team used the self assembly principles that underlie the formation of beta-amyloid plaques, which are the protein deposits often associated with Alzheimer's disease, as a model for their new material. From carbon-based compounds these materials are made and they are lightweight, flexible, easily processed alternatives to hard electronics components such as metal wires or silicon semiconductors. In order to regulate cell-to-cell communication as a prelude to re- engineering neural networks or damaged spinal cords these materials can be used to guide electrical current at the nanoscale.