Electronic transport in single-helical protein molecules: Effects of multiple charge conduction pathways and helical symmetry
arXiv:1603.01966 · doi:10.1016/j.physleta.2016.05.036
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 envi- ronmental fluctuations which indicates that these biomolecules can serve as better alternatives in nanoelectronic devices than its other biological counterparts e.g., single-stranded DNA.
Six pages, four figures
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