A Landauer Formula for Bioelectronic Applications
Abstract
:1. Introduction
- The conductance remains nearly constant when temperature is changed from tens of Kelvins to ambient temperatures [10].
2. Derivation of a Landauer Formula for Bioelectronics
3. Electron Transfer
4. Weak Contacts
5. Strong Contacts
5.1. Strong and Weak Contact Mixed
5.2. Strong Decoherence
5.3. Temperature Dependence
5.4. Distance Dependence
5.5. Order of Magnitude
5.6. Electron Transfer at Strong Decoherence
6. Experiments
6.1. Temperature Dependence
6.2. Distance Dependence of Electron Transfer and Conductance
6.3. Distribution of Conductance
7. Discussion
8. Materials and Methods
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Appendix D
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in | in | |
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Native m-Mb | ||
apo Mb | ||
Reconstituted m-Mb |
Energy in eV | |
---|---|
LUMO+1 | −8.9052 |
LUMO | −9.5185 |
HOMO | −9.9637 |
HOMO-1 | −10.0282 |
in | in | in eV | |
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Covalent binding (E104C) | |||
Electrostatic binding (WT) |
Energy in eV | |
---|---|
LUMO+1 | −9.9457 |
LUMO | −9.9252 |
HOMO | −9.6021 |
HOMO-1 | −9.0685 |
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Papp, E.; Jelenfi, D.P.; Veszeli, M.T.; Vattay, G. A Landauer Formula for Bioelectronic Applications. Biomolecules 2019, 9, 599. https://doi.org/10.3390/biom9100599
Papp E, Jelenfi DP, Veszeli MT, Vattay G. A Landauer Formula for Bioelectronic Applications. Biomolecules. 2019; 9(10):599. https://doi.org/10.3390/biom9100599
Chicago/Turabian StylePapp, Eszter, Dávid P. Jelenfi, Máté T. Veszeli, and Gábor Vattay. 2019. "A Landauer Formula for Bioelectronic Applications" Biomolecules 9, no. 10: 599. https://doi.org/10.3390/biom9100599