Microbial nanowires for sustainable electronics

MJ Guberman-Pfeffer, NM Dorval Courchesne… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Microbial protein nanowires are emerging as an alternative to abiotic nanowires for
electronics applications. Microbial nanowires are sustainably produced, robust, non-toxic …

Rational Design of Bio‐Inspired Peptide Electronic Materials toward Bionanotechnology: Strategies and Applications

J Zhao, Q Liu, X Tong, Y Wang… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Biologically inspired peptide‐based materials, as novel charge transport materials, have
gained increasing interest in bioelectronics due to their remarkable electrical properties and …

Designed 2D protein crystals as dynamic molecular gatekeepers for a solid-state device

S Vijayakumar, RG Alberstein, Z Zhang, YS Lu… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The sensitivity and responsiveness of living cells to environmental changes are enabled by
dynamic protein structures, inspiring efforts to construct artificial supramolecular protein …

Electron transport through two interacting channels in Azurin-based solid-state junctions

P Li, S Bera, S Kumar-Saxena, I Pecht… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
The fundamental question of “what is the transport path of electrons through proteins?”
initially introduced while studying long-range electron transfer between localized redox …

An Infrared Nanospectroscopy Technique for the Study of Electric-Field-Induced Molecular Dynamics

ME Temperini, R Polito, T Venanzi, L Baldassarre… - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Static electric fields play a considerable role in a variety of molecular nanosystems as
diverse as single-molecule junctions, molecules supporting electrostatic catalysis, and …

Molecular-Scale Electronics: From Individual Molecule Detection to the Application of Recognition Sensing

J Guo, PK Chen, S Chang - Analytical Chemistry, 2024 - ACS Publications
Rapid, specific, and sensitive measurements of target analytes are the goals of many
methods used in molecular chemistry and biology. 1 However, the dynamic and intricate …

Shallow conductance decay along the heme array of a single tetraheme protein wire

K Garg, Z Futera, X Wu, Y Jeong, R Chiu… - Chemical …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Multiheme cytochromes (MHCs) are the building blocks of highly conductive micrometre-
long supramolecular wires found in so-called electrical bacteria. Recent studies have …

Efficient Electron Hopping Transport through Azurin-Based Junctions

C Roldán-Piñero, C Romero-Muñiz… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We conducted a theoretical study of electron transport through junctions of the blue-copper
azurin from Pseudomonas aeruginosa. We found that single-site hopping can lead to either …

Single‐Molecule Electrical Profiling of Peptides and Proteins

H Ju, L Cheng, M Li, K Mei, S He, C Jia… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In recent decades, there has been a significant increase in the application of single‐
molecule electrical analysis platforms in studying proteins and peptides. These advanced …

Preparation of Langmuir-Blodgett composite films based on sericin protein and silk fibroin with good surface-enhanced Raman scattering and photovoltaic properties

T Zhao, R Wang, S Wei, L Zhang, Z Liu, M Wang… - Colloids and Surfaces A …, 2024 - Elsevier
In this work, the self-assembled films of sericin protein (SP), silk fibroin (SF), and dye
molecules were prepared by the Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) technique. Surface-enhanced …