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Cold denaturation induces inversion of dipole and spin transfer in chiral peptide monolayers.


ABSTRACT: Chirality-induced spin selectivity is a recently-discovered effect, which results in spin selectivity for electrons transmitted through chiral peptide monolayers. Here, we use this spin selectivity to probe the organization of self-assembled ?-helix peptide monolayers and examine the relation between structural and spin transfer phenomena. We show that the ?-helix structure of oligopeptides based on alanine and aminoisobutyric acid is transformed to a more linear one upon cooling. This process is similar to the known cold denaturation in peptides, but here the self-assembled monolayer plays the role of the solvent. The structural change results in a flip in the direction of the electrical dipole moment of the adsorbed molecules. The dipole flip is accompanied by a concomitant change in the spin that is preferred in electron transfer through the molecules, observed via a new solid-state hybrid organic-inorganic device that is based on the Hall effect, but operates with no external magnetic field or magnetic material.

SUBMITTER: Eckshtain-Levi M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4773432 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Cold denaturation induces inversion of dipole and spin transfer in chiral peptide monolayers.

Eckshtain-Levi Meital M   Capua Eyal E   Refaely-Abramson Sivan S   Sarkar Soumyajit S   Gavrilov Yulian Y   Mathew Shinto P SP   Paltiel Yossi Y   Levy Yaakov Y   Kronik Leeor L   Naaman Ron R  

Nature communications 20160226


Chirality-induced spin selectivity is a recently-discovered effect, which results in spin selectivity for electrons transmitted through chiral peptide monolayers. Here, we use this spin selectivity to probe the organization of self-assembled α-helix peptide monolayers and examine the relation between structural and spin transfer phenomena. We show that the α-helix structure of oligopeptides based on alanine and aminoisobutyric acid is transformed to a more linear one upon cooling. This process i  ...[more]

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