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A Polyaniline-based Sensor of Nucleic Acids
Published on: November 1, 2016
Density functional theory and empirical derived force fields for the delocalized polaron form of polyaniline.
Z Cherrak1, P Lagant, N Benharrats
1USTO, Université des Sciences et de la Technologie d' Oran-Mohammed Boudiaf, Oran, Algérie.
Abstract:
Normal mode analyses obtained from quantum chemical calculations at the DFT level of theory have been performed for the repetitive unit of the delocalized bipolaron form of polyaniline (PANI). Empirical molecular mechanics force field parameters were consecutively refined using the SPASIBA software and applied to the molecular dynamics properties of an isolated dodeca oligomer model of the leucoemeraldine form of PANI. It is shown that effects of protonation of the emeraldine base spread over the four rings constituting the repeating unit. Molecular dynamics simulations reveal alternative bendings of the whole chain with a time period of 18-20 ps for the model of PANI under study.
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