A review regarding the studies of light-sensitive systems based on bacteriorhodopsin is
presented. Briefly given are modern ideas about bacteriorhodopsin and its molecular …

Photosynthetic reaction centres are membrane-spanning proteins, found in several classes
of autotroph organisms, where a photoinduced charge separation and stabilization takes …

Biocatalysis has become an essential tool in the chemical industry and is the core of
industrial biotechnology, also known as white biotechnology, making use of biocatalysts in …

The growing demand for nonfossil fuel-based energy production has drawn attention to the
utilization of natural proteins such as photosynthetic reaction center (RC) protein complexes …

Background MicroRNA (miRNA) therapeutics are a promising approach to cancer treatment.
However, this method faces considerable challenges to achieve tissue-specific, efficient …

Water soluble 2D crystalline monolayers of fullerenes grow on planar assemblies of
engineered consensus tetratricopeptide repeat proteins. Designed fullerene-coordinating …

The ability to exchange energy and information between biological and electronic materials
is critical in the development of hybrid electronic systems in biomedicine, environmental …

Electromigration—a critical failure mode of metal interconnects in integrated circuits—has
been exploited for constructing nanometer-sized gaps (or nanogaps, less than a few …

Feedback-controlled electromigration (FCE) has been a useful technique for creating
nanoscale gaps between metal electrodes. In general, it is considered that the fabrication of …

We investigate through ab-initio simulations the gold-8PyrroleDiThiol-gold (Au-8PyDT)
molecular quantum dot as an amperometric single-molecule sensor for the aflatoxin B1 …