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13 - Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Metallurgy and Materials
University of Leeds
Directed surface attachment of nanomaterials via coiled-coil-driven self-assembly
CPW-4: This paper reports the first on-surface exploitation of a protein-based directed self-assembly mechanism, providing the particular benefit of enabling protein encapsulated systems, e.g. sophisticated functional molecular machines such as viruses, to be incorporated into macroscopic electronic devices. The paper was selected by the journal editor to be open access and as the cover article. The research was collaborative with Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology and University of York. The work underpinned a BBSRC/DSTL Synthetic Biology award (BB/J020370, PI:McPherson, £132k) to develop hybrid bio-electronic amplifiers for biosensors, and two studentships (BBSRC-White Rose, and an EPSRC case award with Hitachi).
