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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Sensing of molecules using quantum dynamics
Contributor:
Migliore, Agostino;
Naaman, Ron;
Beratan, David N.
Published:
National Academy of Sciences, 2015
Published in:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112 (2015) 19, Seite E2419-E2428
Language:
English
ISSN:
0027-8424;
1091-6490
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
We design sensors where information is transferred between the sensing event and the actuator via quantum relaxation processes, through distances of a few nanometers. We thus explore the possibility of sensing using intrinsically quantum mechanical phenomena that are also at play in photobiology, bioenergetics, and information processing. Specifically, we analyze schemes for sensing based on charge transfer and polarization (electronic relaxation) processes. These devices can have surprising properties. Their sensitivity can increase with increasing separation between the sites of sensing (the receptor) and the actuator (often a solid-state substrate). This counterintuitive response and other quantum features give these devices favorable characteristics, such as enhanced sensitivity and selectivity. Using coherent phenomena at the core of molecular sensing presents technical challenges but also suggests appealing schemes for molecular sensing and information transfer in supra-molecular structures.