Electron channels in biomolecular nanowires

Preprint

2 January 2004

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.cond-mat/0401012

Abstract

We report a first-principle study of the electronic and conduction properties of a quadruple-helix guanine wire (G4-wire), a DNA-derivative, with inner potassium ions. The analysis of the electronic structure highlights the presence of energy manifolds that are equivalent to the bands of (semi)conducting materials, and reveals the formation of extended electron channels available for charge transport along the wire. The specific metal-nucleobase interactions affect the electronic properties at the Fermi level, leading the wire to behave as an intrinsically p-doped system.

Keywords

BIOMOLECULAR NANOWIRES
ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES
ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE
ELECTRON CHANNELS
QUADRUPLE HELIX
PRINCIPLE STUDY
DOPED SYSTEM
PROPERTIES
WIRE

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