Articles by Adrienne R. Schmidt in JoVE

Synthesis, Assembly, and Characterization of Monolayer Protected Gold Nanoparticle Films for Protein Monolayer Electrochemistry

JoVE 3441 10/04/2011

Tran T. Doan¹, Michael H. Freeman², Adrienne R. Schmidt², Natalie D. T. Nguyen², Michael C. Leopold¹

¹Department of Chemistry, Gottwald Center for the Sciences, University of Richmond, ²Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Gottwald Center for the Sciences, University of Richmond

Alkanethiolate stabilized gold colloids known as monolayer protected clusters (MPCs) are synthesized, characterized, and assembled into thin films as an adsorption interface for protein monolayer electrochemistry of simple redox protein like Pseudomonas aeruginosa azurin (AZ) and cytochrome c (cyt c).