QUANTUM CONVERSION AND IMAGE DETECTION BY A BACTERIORHODOPSIN-BASED ARTIFICIAL PHOTORECEPTOR
QUANTUM CONVERSION AND IMAGE DETECTION BY A BACTERIORHODOPSIN-BASED ARTIFICIAL PHOTORECEPTOR
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DOI:
10.1126/science.255.5042.342
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发表时间:
1992-01-17
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影响因子:
56.9
通讯作者:
ITOH, I
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作者:
MIYASAKA, T;KOYAMA, K;ITOH, I
A thin film (50 to 500 angstroms thick) comprising fragments of bacteriorhodopsin (bR)-containing purple membrane was formed on an SnO2 conductive electrode by the Langmuir-Blodgett method. The film was put into contact with a thin, aqueous electrolyte gel to construct an electrochemical sandwich-type photocell with a junction structure SnO2/bR/electrolyte/Au electrode. Under visible fight irradiation, the bR-based photocell produced an efficient rectified photocurrent that proved to have unique differential responsivity to tight intensity, which is characteristic of in vivo biological photoreceptors. An artificial photoreceptor comprising a pixel network of the bR photocell was fabricated in an attempt to study image-detecting and processing abilities of bR.