Journal
ACS NANO
Volume 5, Issue 12, Pages 9918-9926Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/nn2036939
Keywords
layer-by-layer assembly; multilayers; ferritin; redox; nonvolatile memory
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- National Research Foundation (NRF)
- Korea government (MEST) [2010-0029106, 2010-0027751, R11-2005-048-00000-0]
- ERC of NRF
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Electrochemical properties of redox proteins, which can cause the reversible changes in the resistance according to their redox reactions in solution, are of the fundamental and practical importance in bioelectrochemical applications. These redox properties often depend on the chemical activity of transition metal ions as cofactors within the active sites of proteins. Here, we demonstrate for the first time that the reversible resistance changes in dried protein films based on ferritin nanoparticles can be caused by the externally applied voltage as a result of charge trap/release of Fe-III/Fe-II redox couples. We also show that one ferritin nanoparticle of about 12 nm size can be operated as a nanoscale-memory device, and furthermore the layer-by-layer assembled protein multilayer devices can be extended to bioinspired electronics with adjustable memory performance via molecular level manipulation.
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