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Gong Y, Adhikari P, Liu Q, et al. Designing the Interface of Carbon Nanotube/Biomaterials for High-Performance Ultra-Broadband Photodetection. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2017;9(12):11016-11024doi: 10.1021/acsami.7b00352.
Gong, Y., Adhikari, P., Liu, Q., Wang, T., Gong, M., Chan, W. L., Ching, W. Y., & Wu, J. (2017). Designing the Interface of Carbon Nanotube/Biomaterials for High-Performance Ultra-Broadband Photodetection. ACS applied materials & interfaces, 9(12), 11016-11024. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.7b00352
Gong, Youpin, et al. "Designing the Interface of Carbon Nanotube/Biomaterials for High-Performance Ultra-Broadband Photodetection." ACS applied materials & interfaces vol. 9,12 (2017): 11016-11024. doi: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.7b00352
Gong Y, Adhikari P, Liu Q, Wang T, Gong M, Chan WL, Ching WY, Wu J. Designing the Interface of Carbon Nanotube/Biomaterials for High-Performance Ultra-Broadband Photodetection. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2017 Mar 29;9(12):11016-11024. doi: 10.1021/acsami.7b00352. Epub 2017 Mar 14. PMID: 28263551.
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ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2017 Mar 29;9(12):11016-11024. doi: 10.1021/acsami.7b00352. Epub 2017 Mar 14.

Designing the Interface of Carbon Nanotube/Biomaterials for High-Performance Ultra-Broadband Photodetection.

ACS applied materials & interfaces

Youpin Gong, Puja Adhikari, Qingfeng Liu, Ti Wang, Maogang Gong, Wai-Lun Chan, Wai-Yim Ching, Judy Wu

Affiliations

  1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas , Lawrence, Kansas 66045, United States.
  2. College of Physics, Optoelectronics and Energy, Key Lab of Advanced Optical Manufacturing Technologies of Jiangsu Province, and Key Lab of Modern Optical Technologies of Education Ministry of China, Soochow University , Suzhou 215006, China.
  3. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Missouri-Kansas City , Kansas City, Missouri 64110, United States.

PMID: 28263551 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.7b00352

Abstract

Inorganic/biomolecule nanohybrids can combine superior electronic and optical properties of inorganic nanostructures and biomolecules for optoelectronics with performance far surpassing that achievable in conventional materials. The key toward a high-performance inorganic/biomolecule nanohybrid is to design their interface based on the electronic structures of the constituents. A major challenge is the lack of knowledge of most biomolecules due to their complex structures and composition. Here, we first calculated the electronic structure and optical properties of one of the cytochrome c (Cyt c) macromolecules (PDB ID: 1HRC ) using ab initio OLCAO method, which was followed by experimental confirmation using ultraviolet photoemission spectroscopy. For the first time, the highest occupied molecular orbital and lowest unoccupied molecular orbital energy levels of Cyt c, a well-known electron transport chain in biological systems, were obtained. On the basis of the result, pairing the Cyt c with semiconductor single-wall carbon nanotubes (s-SWCNT) was predicted to have a favorable band alignment and built-in electrical field for exciton dissociation and charge transfer across the s-SWCNT/Cyt c heterojunction interface. Excitingly, photodetectors based on the s-SWCNT/Cyt c heterojunction nanohybrids demonstrated extraordinary ultra-broadband (visible light to infrared) responsivity (46-188 A W

Keywords: ab initio calculation; broadband photodetectors; cytochrome c; exciton dissociation; s-SWCNTs

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