Volume 5, Issue 18 pp. 2038-2042
Communication

Biotemplated Metal Nanowires Using Hyperthermophilic Protein Filaments

Joseph M. Slocik

Joseph M. Slocik

Nanostructured and Biological Materials Branch Materials and Manufacturing Directorate Air Force Research Lab Wright-Patterson AFB OH 45433–7750 (USA)

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Sang Nyon Kim

Sang Nyon Kim

Nanostructured and Biological Materials Branch Materials and Manufacturing Directorate Air Force Research Lab Wright-Patterson AFB OH 45433–7750 (USA)

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Timothy A. Whitehead

Timothy A. Whitehead

Department of Chemical Engineering University of California, Berkeley CA 94720 (USA)

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Douglas S. Clark

Douglas S. Clark

Department of Chemical Engineering University of California, Berkeley CA 94720 (USA)

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Rajesh R. Naik

Corresponding Author

Rajesh R. Naik

Nanostructured and Biological Materials Branch Materials and Manufacturing Directorate Air Force Research Lab Wright-Patterson AFB OH 45433–7750 (USA)

Nanostructured and Biological Materials Branch Materials and Manufacturing Directorate Air Force Research Lab Wright-Patterson AFB OH 45433–7750 (USA).Search for more papers by this author
First published: 14 September 2009
Citations: 31

This research was performed while S.N. held a National Research Council Research Associateship Award at AFRL. The authors thank Dr. C. Devlin for the microlithography process.

Graphical Abstract

Self-assembled hyperthermophilic γ-prefoldin protein filaments are used to template different metal nanoparticle wires. Filaments are uniformly decorated with small nanoparticles along the length of the protein and exhibit good conductivity behavior when aligned across an electrode gap.

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