Effect of iron doping on protein molecular conductance

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics : PCCP
Nikolai LebedevLeonard M Tender

Abstract

Protein molecular conductance has attracted attention from researchers for the possibility of constructing innovative flexible biocompatible nanoscale electronic devices and smart hybrid materials. Due to protein complexity, most evaluations of protein conductivity are based on the simple estimation of protein's molecular orbital energy levels and spatial distributions without analysing its protein interaction with electrodes and the calculation of the rates of electron transfer (ET). In the present work, we included in our density functional theory (DFT) analysis an approach based on the non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) allowing for calculation from the first principles the molecular interaction with electrodes and thus the role of electrode materials, Fermi level, the thermal distribution of electronic energy levels, and the coupling efficiency between the molecule and the electrodes. Compared to proteins studied so far, mainly artificial peptides, heme-containing cytochromes, and bacterial pili, we choose rubredoxin for our calculation. Rubredoxin contains a non-heme iron that, as we have discovered recently, can be involved in extracellular ET in electroactive bacterial biofilms (Yates et al., Energy Environ. Sci., 2...Continue Reading

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Apr 4, 2019·ACS Nano·Nikolai LebedevLeonard Martin Tender

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