Fabrication of electron tunneling probes for measuring single-protein conductance

Tao Jiang, Long Yi, Xu Liu, Aleksandar P. Ivanov, Joshua B. Edel, Longhua Tang

Published: 2023-07-06 DOI: 10.1038/s41596-023-00846-3

electron tunneling probes

single-protein conductance

nanopipette-based QMT

protein dynamics

fabrication protocol

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