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Wrapping cytochrome c around single-wall carbon nanotube: engineered nanohybrid building blocks for infrared detection at high quantum efficiency
dc.contributor.author | Gong, Youpin | |
dc.contributor.author | Liu, Qingfeng | |
dc.contributor.author | Wilt, Jamie Samantha | |
dc.contributor.author | Gong, Maogang | |
dc.contributor.author | Ren, Shenqiang | |
dc.contributor.author | Wu, Judy Z. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-07-07T19:44:49Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-07-07T19:44:49Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Gong 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. | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/18196 | |
dc.description.abstract | Biomolecule 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.sponsorship | This 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.publisher | Macmillan Publishers | en_US |
dc.title | Wrapping cytochrome c around single-wall carbon nanotube: engineered nanohybrid building blocks for infrared detection at high quantum efficiency | en_US |
dc.type | Article | |
kusw.kuauthor | Gong, Youpin | |
kusw.kuauthor | Liu, Qingfeng | |
kusw.kuauthor | Wilt, Jamie Samantha | |
kusw.kuauthor | Gong, Maogang | |
kusw.kuauthor | Ren, Shenqiang | |
kusw.kuauthor | Wu, Judy | |
kusw.kudepartment | Department of Physics and Astronomy | en_US |
kusw.kudepartment | Department of Chemistry | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1038/srep11328 | |
dc.identifier.orcid | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2155-9511 | |
kusw.oaversion | Scholarly/refereed, publisher version | |
kusw.oapolicy | This item meets KU Open Access policy criteria. | |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess |