Quantum Transport in Conductive Bacterial Nanowires

The electrical properties of conductive heme-based nanowires found in the pili in Geobacter sulfurreducens bacteria were investigated using a density functional theory (DFT) model. Green's function methods were used to calculate quantum transmission and single molecule conductance in both the low temperature (coherent) and room temperature (decoherent) regimes. Several approaches were attempted fo...