We’ve recently participated in this series of outreach videos about physics and the ideas that changed the world. In this first series, transistors, LEDs and Lasers are the main protagonists.
This series, produced by the Institute of Condensed Matter Physics, IFIMAC, will tell us how the study of physics and abstract ideas, shaped the world we live in today.
Protein based electronics. I’ll say it again. Protein based electronics. Dr. Linda Zotty and Prof. Carlos Cuevas (IFIMAC, Spain) are working in something that stills looks like science fiction to me: protein-bioelectronics.
In particular they are studying how to turn a redox protein (Cytochrome C) into a viable switch. These proteins belong to a family of redox-active proteins that act as electron carriers in biological energy conversion systems (as in those involved in cellular respiration). Together with groups from the Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel) and Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic chemistry (Russia), they’ve theoretically shown how a Gold-Cytochrome-Gold structure can work as a voltage controlled switch.
Their research has been published in Angewandte Chemie and has been presented in the inside back cover.