Proteins offer an almost infinite number of functions and geometries for building nanostructures. Here we have focused on amyloid fibrillar proteins as a nanowire template and shown that these fibrils can be coated with the highly conducting polymer alkoxysulfonate PEDOT through molecular self-assembly in water. Transmission electron microscopy and atomic force microscopy show that Vne coated tibets have a diameter around 15 nm and a length/thickness aspect ratio >1:1000. We have further shown that networks of the conducting nanowires are electrically and electrochemically active by constructing fully functional electrochemical transistors with nanowire networks, operating at low voltages between 0 and 0.5 V. © 2008 American Chemical Society.
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Hamedi, M., Herland, A., Karlsson, R. H., & Lnganäs, O. (2008). Electrochemical devices made from conducting nanowire networks self-assembled from amyloid fibrils and alkoxysulfonate PEDOT. Nano Letters, 8(6), 1736–1740. https://doi.org/10.1021/nl0808233
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