Carbon nanotubes wrapped by DNA molecules
Description
Complexes of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and nucleic acids allow fully exploit the potential of the CNTs in nanoelectronic devices, both by a size-specific matching of the two components and by the possibility to anchor also non-polar CNTs on the polar substrates such as oxides. The wrapping CNTs by the nucleic acid molecules allow also a transfer of CNTs into water solutions and a performance for their radii and lengths separation using chromatographical methods.
In the present work for the first time the stability and electronic properties of the associates of the single-walled carbon nanotubes wrapped by homopolymeric single-stranded DNA molecules (CNT@DNA) are studied using a dispersion corrected modification of quantum mechanical density-functional tight-binding method (DFTB).
A phenomenological model of the CNT@DNA formation energy depending on the nanotube radii is developed, which shows that the decoration of a CNT by a few (not single) DNA chains leads to a high water solubility of CNT@DNA. Pyrimidine-based DNAs are found to be more effective to wrap the CNTs, whereas purine-based DNAs are in wrapping more sensitive to the change of radii. The densities-of-states of the CNT@DNA complexes are close to the superposition of those of the “free” components with some additional states below Fermi level. The band gap in a hybrid CNT@DNA system is determined by the competition between the Fermi levels of the “free” DNA and CNT. In a few specific cases (complexes of polycytosine-DNA and a chiral metallic CNT) a considerable charge transfer from the DNA to the CNT was observed, combined with an additional gain in the CNT@DNA formation energy.
| Slides | |
| 0:00 | DNA-wrapped Carbon Nanotubes |
| 0:14 | Known hybrides of carbon nanotubes (CNT) and deoxyribonucleic acids (DNA): |
| 0:53 | Possible Applications (1) |
| 1:27 | Possible Applications (2) |
| 1:48 | Topic of work |
| 2:25 | Basis for construction of the models of CNT@DNA complexes:DNA |
| 2:54 | Basis for construction of the models of CNT@DNA complexes:SWCNT |
| 3:08 | Basis for construction of the models of CNT@DNA complexes (1) |
| 3:21 | Basis for construction of the models of CNT@DNA complexes (2) |
| 3:56 | Formation of the CNT@DNA complexes - DFTB based energetical model for association of DNA and CNT |
| 5:26 | Formation of the CNT@DNA complexes - Cohesion Energy of CNTs within Bundles (1) |
| 6:25 | Formation of the CNT@DNA complexes - Cohesion Energy of CNTs within Bundles (2) |
| 7:28 | Formation of the CNT@DNA complexes - Strain Energy of distorted ss-DNA Molecules (1) |
| 8:07 | Formation of the CNT@DNA complexes - Strain Energy of distorted ss-DNA Molecules (2) |
| 9:11 | Formation of the CNT@DNA complexes - Adsorption Energy of DNA Nucleotides on Graphite Surface |
| 9:42 | Formation of the CNT@DNA complexes - Energetical model for association of DNA and CNT (1) |
| 10:52 | Formation of the CNT@DNA complexes - Energetical model for association of DNA and CNT (2) |
| 11:44 | Formation of the CNT@DNA complexes - Energetical model for association of DNA and CNT (3) |
| 12:30 | Formation of the CNT@DNA complexes - Direct DFTB calculations |
| 13:09 | Electronic Properties of the CNT@DNA complexes - Densities of States (1) |
| 13:45 | Electronic Properties of the CNT@DNA complexes - Densities of States (2) |
| 13:59 | Electronic Properties of the CNT@DNA complexes - Densities of States (3) |
| 14:23 | Electronic Properties of the CNT@DNA complexes - Charge Transfer (1) |
| 14:43 | Electronic Properties of the CNT@DNA complexes - Charge Transfer (2) |
| 14:49 | Conclusions |
| 14:51 | Aknowledgments (1) |
| 14:59 | Aknowledgments (2) |
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