Materials that capture, convert, and/or produce electricity.

• Technical Achievement: Engineer materials that utilize traditional proton pumps to generate electrical current.
• Technical Achievement: Biologically-based design of electrically responsive materials.
• Technical Achievement: Develop bioinspired materials for artificial photosynthesis capable of producing energy at large scale.

Transistors and semiconductors made with biology.

• Technical achievement: Engineer carboxysomes or similar organelles to synthesize multilayer semiconductor nanoparticles with tailored layer structure for specific optical emission.
• Technical achievement: Engineer peptide or protein-based nanowires with enhanced conductivity.
• Technical achievement: Advance engineering of hybrid biomaterials at the biotic/abiotic interface.¹Zhao, M., Chen, Y., Wang, K., Zhang, Z., Streit, J.K., Fagan, J.A., Tang, J., Zheng, M., Yang, C., Zhu, Z., & Sun, W. (2020). DNA-directed nanofabrication of high-performance carbon nanotube field-effect transistors. Science, 368(6493), 878-881. View Publication

Footnotes

1. Advance engineering of hybrid biomaterials at the biotic/abiotic interface.²Zhao, M., Chen, Y., Wang, K., Zhang, Z., Streit, J.K., Fagan, J.A., Tang, J., Zheng, M., Yang, C., Zhu, Z., & Sun, W. (2020). DNA-directed nanofabrication of high-performance carbon nanotube field-effect transistors. Science, 368(6493), 878-881. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaz7435