2003/10/16 by Petr Král · 13 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Chemistry · Materials Science · Neuroscience · Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic physics #Carbon Nanotubes in Composites #Carbon nanotube #Catalysis #Chemical physics #Chemistry #Composite material #Electric field #Excited state #Infrared #Materials science #Nanotechnology #Nanotube #Neuroscience and Neural Engineering #Optics #Organic chemistry #Photoreceptor and optogenetics research #Physics #Rope #Tube (container) #physics.bio-ph #q-bio.BM #q-bio.CB
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.cplett.2003.10.084
published in Chemical Physics Letters 382(3-4), 399-403 (Elsevier BV) · 4 pages, 3 Postscript figures
arxiv created 2003/10/16 · openalex publication_date 2003/11/15 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We discuss the possibility of controlling biological systems, by exciting in the near infrared region \it hybrid metallic nanotube ropes, dressed with proteins and embedded in the biosystems. If one nanotube, in a double-tube rope, is filled with metallofullerenes and the other is empty, the two tubes change their opposite equilibrium charging during the irradiation. The resulting change of the local electric field can deform proteins attached to the tubes, and change their catalytic properties.