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Engineering Molecular Recognition with Bio-mimetic Polymers on Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes
Published on: January 10, 2017
Ab Initio investigation for DNA nucleotide bases sequencing using chiral carbon nanobelts and nanotubes
Seyyed Mostafa Monavari1, Nafiseh Memarian2
1Faculty of Physics, Semnan University, P.O. Box: 35195-363, Semnan, Iran.
Abstract:
Understanding the interaction mechanism between DNA nucleotide bases and carbon nanomaterials is an important issue in the field of identifying nucleotide molecules sequencing. In this article, the adsorption behavior of DNA nucleotide bases on the external surface of chiral carbon nanobelts (CNBs) (6, 5), (7, 6) and (8, 6), was comprehensively investigated from electronic and optical perspectives. As a result, it was determined that the DNA nucleotide bases have optical absorption in the ultraviolet region. When bases are adsorbed on the surface of CNBs, the optical absorption peak of the new complex structure shifted to the visible region. The study of the optical properties of selected CNBs showed that CNB (6,5) performs better in detecting Cytosine and the red shift in the absorption spectrum of complex structure is noticeable. Also, the effect of infinite length for chiral CNTs in DNA nucleotide base sequencing was investigated using DFTB approach. Our investigations based on electronic properties showed that CNTs have better performance than CNBs in DNA nucleotide base sequencing.
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