Proton Conductivity: Enhanced Proton Conductivity across Protein Biopolymers Mediated by Doped Carbon Nanoparticles (Small 50/2020)

In article number 2005526, Nadav Amdursky and co-workers reveal that carbon-dots can serve as superior proton-mediators, where protein biopolymers are used as the protonic transport matrix. It is shown by ultrafast spectroscopy and electrical measurements that differently doped carbon-dots can integrate differently to the protein biopolymer and, consequently, attenuate the protonic conductivity across the formed chimeric biopolymer.