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Click chemistry is used to construct a novel lipase-BSA hetero-dimer, in which the latter protein acts as a foot enabling the anchoring of the enzyme onto the surface for single enzyme studies.

The article reports that the development of nanofibers is a promising approach to miniaturize optoelectronic devices. Over the recent years, such fibers have been constructed from inorganic materials and carbon nanotubes. Alternatively, self-assembled nanofibers based on pie-conjugated systems provide a versatile means to fabricate fibers with tailor-made functionalities similar to those of plastic electronics. So far, however, their use in devices has been limited to pie-conjugated polymers and doped oligomers. A crucial step toward plastic nanoelectronics is the creation of identical, highly organized fibers, about one-molecule thick, on a solid support.