Nature Communications (Nov 2020)

Proton-enabled activation of peptide materials for biological bimodal memory

  • Min-Kyu Song,
  • Seok Daniel Namgung,
  • Daehwan Choi,
  • Hyeohn Kim,
  • Hongmin Seo,
  • Misong Ju,
  • Yoon Ho Lee,
  • Taehoon Sung,
  • Yoon-Sik Lee,
  • Ki Tae Nam,
  • Jang-Yeon Kwon

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19750-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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The structural programmability and functionality of peptide materials can be leverage for various next-generation devices such as non-volatile memories. The authors report a proton-coupled mechanism in tyrosine-rich peptides for realizing multimodal memory devices.