Ferritin-Based Single-Electron Devices

Ferritin-Based Single-Electron Devices

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We report on the fabrication of single-electron devices based on horse-spleen ferritin particles.At low temperatures the current vs.voltage characteristics are stable, enabling the acquisition of reproducible data that establishes trikes the Coulomb blockade as the main transport mechanism through them.Excellent agreement between the experimental data and the Coulomb blockade theory Plastic Car is demonstrated.Single-electron charge transport in ferritin, thus, establishes a route for further characterization of their, e.

g., magnetic, properties down to the single-particle level, with prospects for electronic and medical applications.