Electronic Structure of Regular Bacterial Surface Layers
- 1 December 2004
- journal article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 93 (23) , 238103
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.93.238103
Abstract
We report photoemission and near-edge x-ray absorption fine structure measurements of the occupied and unoccupied valence electronic states of the regular surface layer of Bacillus sphaericus, which is widely used as the protein template for the fabrication of metallic nanostructures. The two-dimensional protein crystal shows a semiconductorlike behavior with a gap value of approximately 3.0 eV and the Fermi energy close to the bottom of the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital. We anticipate that these results will open up new possibilities for the electric addressability of biotemplated low-dimensional hybrid structures.Keywords
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