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dc.contributor.authorGong, Youpin
dc.contributor.authorLiu, Qingfeng
dc.contributor.authorWilt, Jamie Samantha
dc.contributor.authorGong, Maogang
dc.contributor.authorRen, Shenqiang
dc.contributor.authorWu, Judy Z.
dc.date.accessioned2015-07-07T19:44:49Z
dc.date.available2015-07-07T19:44:49Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.citationGong Y, Liu Q, Wilt JS, Gong M, Ren S, Wu J. Wrapping cytochrome c around single-wall carbon nanotube: engineered nanohybrid building blocks for infrared detection at high quantum efficiency. Scientific Reports. 2015;5:11328.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep11328.
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1808/18196
dc.description.abstractBiomolecule cytochrome c (Cty c), a small molecule of a chain of amino acids with extraordinary electron transport, was helically wrapped around a semiconductive single-wall carbon nanotube (s-SWCNT) to form a molecular building block for uncooled infrared detection with two uniquely designed functionalities: exciton dissociation to free charge carriers at the heterojunction formed on the s-SWCNT/Cty c interface and charge transport along the electron conducting chain of Cty c (acceptor) and hole conducting channel through s-SWCNT (donor). Such a design aims at addressing the long-standing challenges in exciton dissociation and charge transport in an SWCNT network, which have bottlenecked development of photonic SWCNT-based infrared detectors. Using these building blocks, uncooled s-SWCNT/Cyt c thin film infrared detectors were synthesized and shown to have extraordinary photoresponsivity up to 0.77 A W−1 due to a high external quantum efficiency (EQE) in exceeding 90%, which represents a more than two orders of magnitude enhancement than the best previously reported on CNT-based infrared detectors with EQE of only 1.72%. From a broad perspective, this work on novel s-SWCNT/Cyt c nanohybrid infrared detectors has developed a successful platform of engineered carbon nanotube/biomolecule building blocks with superior properties for optoelectronic applications.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work was supported by ARO contract No. ARO-W911NF-12-1-0412, and NSF contracts Nos. NSF-DMR-1105986 and NSF EPSCoR-0903806, and was matching supported by the State of Kansas through Kansas Technology Enterprise Corporation. S.R. thanks the financial support from the Army Research Office-Young Investigator Award (W911NF-14-1–0443) for nanocarbon study. We thank Melisa Xin and Dr. Tanya Simms for their assistance in fabrication of electrodes on devices and AFM characterization, respectively.en_US
dc.publisherMacmillan Publishersen_US
dc.titleWrapping cytochrome c around single-wall carbon nanotube: engineered nanohybrid building blocks for infrared detection at high quantum efficiencyen_US
dc.typeArticle
kusw.kuauthorGong, Youpin
kusw.kuauthorLiu, Qingfeng
kusw.kuauthorWilt, Jamie Samantha
kusw.kuauthorGong, Maogang
kusw.kuauthorRen, Shenqiang
kusw.kuauthorWu, Judy
kusw.kudepartmentDepartment of Physics and Astronomyen_US
kusw.kudepartmentDepartment of Chemistryen_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1038/srep11328
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-2155-9511
kusw.oaversionScholarly/refereed, publisher version
kusw.oapolicyThis item meets KU Open Access policy criteria.
dc.rights.accessrightsopenAccess


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