π-Conjugated bis(terpyridine)metal complex molecular wires

2015 ◽  
Vol 44 (21) ◽  
pp. 7698-7714 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryota Sakamoto ◽  
Kuo-Hui Wu ◽  
Ryota Matsuoka ◽  
Hiroaki Maeda ◽  
Hiroshi Nishihara
Keyword(s):  
Electron Transport ◽  
Metal Complex ◽  
Long Range ◽  
Molecular Wires ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Electrode Surfaces

This review focuses on the bottom-up fabrication of linear and branched bis(terpyridine)metal complex wires on electrode surfaces, which feature distinct and characteristic electronic functionalities such as intra-wire redox conduction and excellent long-range electron transport ability.

Surface Bottom-up Fabrication of Porphyrin-terminated Metal Complex Molecular Wires with Photo-electron Conversion Properties on ITO

2008 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 404-405 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariko Miyachi ◽  
Makiko Ohta ◽  
Misaki Nakai ◽  
Yoshihiro Kubota ◽  
Yoshinori Yamanoi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Metal Complex ◽  
Molecular Wires ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Electron Conversion

scholarly journals Efficient long-range conduction in cable bacteria through nickel protein wires

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Henricus T. S. Boschker ◽  
Perran L. M. Cook ◽  
Lubos Polerecky ◽  
Raghavendran Thiruvallur Eachambadi ◽  
Helena Lozano ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Electron Transport ◽  
Long Range ◽  
Cell Envelope ◽  
Protein Structures ◽  
Chemical Imaging ◽  
Electrical Currents ◽  
Core Proteins ◽  
Active Metal ◽  
Unknown Form ◽  
High Resolution Microscopy

AbstractFilamentous cable bacteria display long-range electron transport, generating electrical currents over centimeter distances through a highly ordered network of fibers embedded in their cell envelope. The conductivity of these periplasmic wires is exceptionally high for a biological material, but their chemical structure and underlying electron transport mechanism remain unresolved. Here, we combine high-resolution microscopy, spectroscopy, and chemical imaging on individual cable bacterium filaments to demonstrate that the periplasmic wires consist of a conductive protein core surrounded by an insulating protein shell layer. The core proteins contain a sulfur-ligated nickel cofactor, and conductivity decreases when nickel is oxidized or selectively removed. The involvement of nickel as the active metal in biological conduction is remarkable, and suggests a hitherto unknown form of electron transport that enables efficient conduction in centimeter-long protein structures.

scholarly journals Charge transport through extended molecular wires with strongly correlated electrons

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
James O. Thomas ◽  
Jakub K. Sowa ◽  
Bart Limburg ◽  
Xinya Bian ◽  
Charalambos Evangeli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Electron Transport ◽  
Charge Transport ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Strongly Correlated Electrons ◽  
Molecular Wires ◽  
Correlated Electrons ◽  
Strongly Correlated

Experimental studies of electron transport through an edge-fused porphyrin oligomer in a graphene junction are interpreted within a Hubbard dimer framework.

scholarly journals Protein Nanowires: the Electrification of the Microbial World and Maybe Our Own

2020 ◽  
Vol 202 (20) ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek R. Lovley ◽  
Dawn E. Holmes
Keyword(s):  
Electron Transport ◽  
Long Range ◽  
Electronic Devices ◽  
Electricity Production ◽  
Microbial World ◽  
Electrically Conductive ◽  
Anaerobic Digesters ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Type Iv ◽  
Type Iv Pilin

ABSTRACT Electrically conductive protein nanowires appear to be widespread in the microbial world and are a revolutionary “green” material for the fabrication of electronic devices. Electrically conductive pili (e-pili) assembled from type IV pilin monomers have independently evolved multiple times in microbial history as have electrically conductive archaella (e-archaella) assembled from homologous archaellin monomers. A role for e-pili in long-range (micrometer) extracellular electron transport has been demonstrated in some microbes. The surprising finding of e-pili in syntrophic bacteria and the role of e-pili as conduits for direct interspecies electron transfer have necessitated a reassessment of routes for electron flux in important methanogenic environments, such as anaerobic digesters and terrestrial wetlands. Pilin monomers similar to those found in e-pili may also be a major building block of the conductive “cables” that transport electrons over centimeter distances through continuous filaments of cable bacteria consisting of a thousand cells or more. Protein nanowires harvested from microbes have many functional and sustainability advantages over traditional nanowire materials and have already yielded novel electronic devices for sustainable electricity production, neuromorphic memory, and sensing. e-pili can be mass produced with an Escherichia coli chassis, providing a ready source of material for electronics as well as for studies on the basic mechanisms for long-range electron transport along protein nanowires. Continued exploration is required to better understand the electrification of microbial communities with microbial nanowires and to expand the “green toolbox” of sustainable materials for wiring and powering the emerging “Internet of things.”

scholarly journals Landauer theory, inelastic scattering, and electron transport in molecular wires

2000 ◽  
Vol 61 (8) ◽  
pp. 5740-5750 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eldon G. Emberly ◽  
George Kirczenow
Keyword(s):  
Electron Transport ◽  
Inelastic Scattering ◽  
Molecular Wires

Long-range correlated electron transport in M-DNA

2016 ◽  
Vol 478 ◽  
pp. 45-47
Author(s):  
Aleš Omerzu ◽  
Miloš Borovšak
Keyword(s):  
Electron Transport ◽  
Long Range ◽  
Correlated Electron

scholarly journals Plastocyanin is the long-range electron carrier between photosystem II and photosystem I in plants

2020 ◽  
Vol 117 (26) ◽  
pp. 15354-15362 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ricarda Höhner ◽  
Mathias Pribil ◽  
Miroslava Herbstová ◽  
Laura Susanna Lopez ◽  
Hans-Henning Kunz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Electron Transport ◽  
Photosystem Ii ◽  
Long Range ◽  
Narrow Range ◽  
Higher Plants ◽  
Regulatory Element ◽  
Photosynthetic Electron Transport ◽  
Electron Carrier ◽  
Mobile Electron ◽  
Electron Carriers

In photosynthetic electron transport, large multiprotein complexes are connected by small diffusible electron carriers, the mobility of which is challenged by macromolecular crowding. For thylakoid membranes of higher plants, a long-standing question has been which of the two mobile electron carriers, plastoquinone or plastocyanin, mediates electron transport from stacked grana thylakoids where photosystem II (PSII) is localized to distant unstacked regions of the thylakoids that harbor PSI. Here, we confirm that plastocyanin is the long-range electron carrier by employing mutants with different grana diameters. Furthermore, our results explain why higher plants have a narrow range of grana diameters since a larger diffusion distance for plastocyanin would jeopardize the efficiency of electron transport. In the light of recent findings that the lumen of thylakoids, which forms the diffusion space of plastocyanin, undergoes dynamic swelling/shrinkage, this study demonstrates that plastocyanin diffusion is a crucial regulatory element of plant photosynthetic electron transport.

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