Electron transfer across α-helical peptide monolayers: Importance of interchain coupling

Langmuir

Volumn 28, Issue 50, 2012, Pages 17287-17294

  Pawlowski, Jan ^a   Juhaniewicz, Joanna ^a   Tymecka, Dagmara ^a   Sek, Slawomir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFM; CONDUCTANCE MEASUREMENT; CURRENT-VOLTAGE RESPONSE; DECAY CONSTANTS; ELECTRON TRANSMISSION; ELECTRON-TRANSFER; EXPONENTIAL TRENDS; EXTERNAL ELECTRIC FIELD; GOLD SUBSTRATES; HELICAL PEPTIDE; INTERCHAIN COUPLING; MECHANICAL STRESS; METALLIC CONTACTS; SAMS; TUNNELING MECHANISM;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON TUNNELING; GOLD; SELF ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS; STRESSES; SUBSTRATES;

PEPTIDES;

GOLD; PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GOLD; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84871325661     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la302716n     Document Type: Article

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