@inbook{66092bad9f7c4fed933923cd91ce036e,
title = "A Method to Investigate the Mechanism of Charge Transport Across Bio-Molecular Junctions with Ferritin",
abstract = "To investigate the mechanisms of charge transport (CT) across biomolecular tunnel junctions, it is required to make electrical contacts by a non-invasive method that leaves the biomolecules unaltered. Although different methods to form biomolecular junctions are available, here we describe the EGaIn-method because it allows us to readily form electrical contacts to monolayers of biomolecules in ordinary laboratory settings and to probe CT as a function of voltage, temperature, or magnetic field. This method relies on a non-Newtonian liquid-metal ally of Ga and In with a few nm thin layer of GaOx floating on its surface giving this material non-Newtonian properties allowing it to be shaped in to cone-shaped tips or stabilized in microchannels. These EGaIn structures form stable contacts to monolayers making it possible to investigate CT mechanisms across biomolecules in great detail.",
keywords = "NLA, Charge transport, EGaIn, Ferritin, Self-assembled monolayer, Tunnel junction, Biomolecular junction",
author = "Karuppannan, {Senthil Kumar} and Nijhuis, {Christian A.}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.",
year = "2023",
month = jun,
day = "13",
doi = "10.1007/978-1-0716-3222-2_14",
language = "English",
series = "Methods in Molecular Biology",
publisher = "Humana Press",
pages = "241--255",
editor = "Takafumi Ueno and Sierin Lim and Kelin Xia",
booktitle = "Protein Cages",
address = "United States",
}