Bio‐Inspired Band Gap Engineering of Zinc Oxide by Intracrystalline Incorporation of Amino Acids

• DOI: 10.1002/adma.201303596
• Publication Date: 2013-10-31T11:02:02Z
• Authors: Anastasia Brif; Guy Ankonina; Christina Drathen; Boaz Pokroy
• Keywords: Nitrogen; Glutamic Acid; FOS: Physical sciences; 02 engineering and technology; Arginine; 01 natural sciences; X-Ray Diffraction; Biomimetic Materials; Serine; Cysteine; Amino Acids; Condensed Matter - Materials Science; Photoelectron Spectroscopy; Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci); Selenocysteine; 0104 chemical sciences; Semiconductors; Feasibility Studies; Microscopy, Electrochemical, Scanning; Zinc Oxide; Crystallization; 0210 nano-technology

During a bioInspired crystallization process, incorporation of amino acids into the crystal structure of ZnO induces lattice strain that leads to linear bandgap shifts.