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Light-driven proton transmembrane transport enabled by bio-semiconductor 2D membrane: A general peptide-induced WS2 band shifting strategy

时间:2022-11-24来源:国际前沿科学研究院点击:251

Xiaoyan Jin, Peikun Zhang, Yuhui Zhang, Min Zhou, Biying Liu, Di Quan,  Meijuan Jia, Zhuhua Zhang, Wei Guo, Xiang-Yu Kong, Lei Jiang.


Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 2022,114741



Abstract: 

Light-driven proton directional transport is important in living beings as it could subtly realize the light energy  conversion for living uses. In the past years, 2D materials-based nanochannels have shown great potential in  active ion transport due to controllable properties, including surface charge distribution, wettability, functionalization, electric structure, and external stimuli responsibility, etc. However, to fuse the inorganic materials into  bio-membranes still faces several challenges. Here, we proposed peptide-modified WS2 nanosheets via cysteine  linkers to realize tunable band structure and, hence, enable light-driven proton transmembrane transport. The  modification was achieved through the thiol chemistry of the –SH groups in the cysteine linker and the S vacancy  on the WS2 nanosheets. By tuning the amino residues sequences (lysine-rich peptides, denoted as KFC; and  aspartate-rich peptides, denoted as DFC), the ζ-potential, surface charge, and band energy of WS2 nanosheets  could be rationally regulated. Janus membranes formed by assembling the peptide-modified WS2 nanosheets  could realize the proton transmembrane transport under visible light irradiation, driven by a built-in potential  due to a type II band alignment between the KFC-WS2 and DFC-WS2. As a result, the proton would be driven  across the formed nanochannels. These results demonstrate a general strategy to build bio-semiconductor materials and provide a new way for embedding inorganic materials into biological systems toward the development of bioelectronic devices.



Link:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bios.2022.114741






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