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SLONANO2007

Carbon nanotubes wrapped by DNA molecules

author: Andrey Enyashin, Physikalische Chemie und Elektrochemie, Physikalische Chemie und Elektrochemie, Technische Universität Dresden, Technische Universität Dresden

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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.

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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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