Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1863136 | Physics Letters A | 2016 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
We propose a tight-binding model to investigate electronic transport properties of single helical protein molecules incorporating both the helical symmetry and the possibility of multiple charge transfer pathways. Our study reveals that due to existence of both the multiple charge transfer pathways and helical symmetry, the transport properties are quite rigid under influence of environmental fluctuations which indicates that these biomolecules can serve as better alternatives in nanoelectronic devices than its other biological counterparts e.g., single-stranded DNA.
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Authors
Sourav Kundu, S.N. Karmakar,