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Hex-star phosphorene nanosheets as sequencing material for DNA/RNA strands - A first-principles investigation
V Nagarajan1, N Reseeka2, R Chandiramouli1
1School of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, SASTRA Deemed University, Tirumalaisamudram, Thanjavur -613 401, India.
Abstract:
In this study, we utilised hex-star phosphorene as the main detecting material to identify the nucleobases. Nucleobases, being crucial carriers of hereditary information are identified through specific hydrogen bonding and steric interactions such as adenine pairing with thymine (or) uracil and guanine pairing with cytosine. The stable hex-star phosphorene possesses negative formation energy of -5.194 eV. The hex-star phosphorene exhibits a semiconductor nature with an energy band gap of 1.658 eV, which is deployed as the adsorbing substrate for nucleobases. Based on the Mulliken charge analysis, adsorption energy, relative band gap variation, and the detection efficiency of hex-star phosphorene towards nucleobases are examined. The outcome confirms the physisorption of nucleobases on hex-star phosphorene and strongly supports that hex-star phosphorene can be used as sequencing material for DNA and RNA.
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