CAREER: Economical and Simple Fabrication of Quantum Dot-Electronics Using Biofunctionalized Protein Nanotubes as Building Blocks

题目：职业：使用生物功能蛋白质纳米管作为构建块的量子点电子学的经济和简单制造该项目涉及分子生物学，纳米技术和材料物理学的融合，试图创造一种新的电子学类别。一种使用生物修饰金属/半导体涂层蛋白质纳米管和量子点的新型纳米结构正在被创造出来，这种结构具有高速、轻量、高稳定性和低功耗的特点。所使用的架构是一种基于生物模型的分子自组装形式。蛋白质纳米管由管状肽模板形成，可以涂上各种半导体、金属和量子点。通过用特定的蛋白质分子功能化管的末端，纳米管可以利用生物识别，模仿生物抗体-抗原相互作用，将金属丝末端连接到适当的底物位置。这种策略是正在研究的制造方法的核心。电子设备的设计本身就被嵌入到纳米结构中，而不是事后使用图形化过程强加给它们。这种生物识别的功能性是与其他纳米管相比的主要优势之一。该项目对研究生、本科生和高中生的跨学科研究具有重要的教育意义，研究范围从光谱学到材料表征。一门暑期纳米技术实验课程正在为有才华的高中生开设。

EIA-0133493 Matsui, Hiroshi CUNY Hunter CollegeTitle: CAREER: Economical and Simple Fabrication of Quantum Dot-Electronics Using Biofunctionalized Protein Nanotubes as Building BlocksThe project involves a blending of molecular biology, nanotechnology, and materials physics, in an attempt to create a new class of electronics. A new architecture for nanostructures using biologically modified metal /semiconductor coated protein ananotube and quantum dots are being created that will inherently be high speed, light weight, high stability, and low power consumption.The architecture being used is a form of molecular self-assembly based on biological models. The protein nanotubes are formed from tubular peptide templates, which can be coated with various semiconductors, metals, and quantum dots. By functionalizing the end of the tubes with specific protein molecules, the nanotubes can use biological recognition, modeled after the biological antibody-antigen interactions, to attach the wire end to the appropriate substrate location. This strategy is at the center of the fabrication method being investigated. Designs of electronics devices are built into nanostructures by themselves, rather than having to be imposed afterwards using a patterning process. The functionality of this biological recognition is one of the major advantages as compared with other nanotubes. The project is having a significant educational benefit for the graduate, undergraduate and high school students in this interdisciplinary research ranging from spectroscopy to materials characterization. A summer Nanotechnology laboratory course is being offered to talented high school students.