Journal
NANOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 21, Issue 16, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/21/16/165703
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- Army Research Office [W911NF-09-1-0221]
- Wenner-Gren Foundations in Stockholm
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We investigate the adsorption of the nucleic acid bases-adenine (A), guanine (G), cytosine (C), thymine (T) and uracil (U)-on the outer wall of a high curvature semiconducting single-walled boron nitride nanotube (BNNT) by first-principles density functional theory calculations. The calculated binding energy shows the order: G > A approximate to C approximate to T approximate to U, implying that the interaction strength of the high curvature BNNT with the nucleobases, G being an exception, is nearly the same. A higher binding energy for the G-BNNT conjugate appears to result from hybridization of the molecular orbitals of G and the BNNT. A smaller energy gap predicted for the G-BNNT conjugate relative to that of the pristine BNNT may be useful in the application of this class of biofunctional materials to the design of next-generation sensing devices.
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