Award Abstract #0210220
NER: Biotemplate Directed Assembly of Nanocrystal Arrays

NSF Org:	CBET Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems
Initial Amendment Date:	August 27, 2002
Latest Amendment Date:	October 16, 2003
Award Number:	0210220
Award Instrument:	Standard Grant
Program Manager:	Triantafillos J. Mountziaris CBET Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems ENG Directorate for Engineering
Start Date:	September 1, 2002
Expires:	August 31, 2004 (Estimated)
Awarded Amount to Date:	$100000
Investigator(s):	Michael Yu yu@jhu.edu (Principal Investigator)
Sponsor:	Johns Hopkins University 3400 N CHARLES ST BALTIMORE, MD 21218 410/516-8668
NSF Program(s):	NANOSCALE: EXPLORATORY RSRCH, CHEMICAL & BIOLOGICAL SEPAR, PARTICULATE &MULTIPHASE PROCES
Field Application(s):	0308000 Industrial Technology
Program Reference Code(s):	OTHR, 1676, 0000
Program Element Code(s):	1676, 1417, 1415

ABSTRACT

ABSTRACT

Proposal No. CTS-0210220

Title NER: Biotemplate Directed Assembly of Nanocrystal Arrays

Principal Investigator: Yu, Michael, Johns Hopkins U

The assembly of well defined 2D nanocrystal arrays of semiconducting and metallic materials using biologically assembled nanoscale template is the major goal in the proposed project. The PI will explore the purple membrane, a naturally occurring membrane protein crystal patch from halobacteria as a precisely structured nanoscale template. The key is to develop genetically engineered purple membranes that display unique functional groups on the membrane surfaces with well defined nanoscale symmetry. These reactive functional groups are used as specific anchoring sites for nanocrystals immobilization.

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