Nanobioelectronic Device Is Born: New Silicon Nanowire Works Through Functional Membrane Proteins, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Study

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MedGadget -- Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory took an important step in creating a nanobioelectronic device when they combined a silicon nanowire (shown in the picture in gray ), covered it with a lipid bilayer (blue), and incorporated bundles of alamethicin molecules (purple) to form pore channels in the membrane. The scientists then managed to modify electronic signal transduction in the nanowire, by controlling the transport of protons though these tiny biological pore channels:

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