Controlling the orientation of nucleobases by dipole moment interaction with graphene/h-BN interfaces
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Material Science and Engineering ProgramPhysical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
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2018Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/627114
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The interfaces in 2D hybrids of graphene and h-BN provide interesting possibilities of adsorbing and manipulating atomic and molecular entities. In this paper, with the aid of density functional theory, we demonstrate the adsorption characteristics of DNA nucleobases at different interfaces of 2D hybrid nanoflakes of graphene and h-BN. The interfaces provide stronger binding to the nucleobases in comparison to pure graphene and h-BN nanoflakes. It is also revealed that the individual dipole moments of the nucleobases and nanoflakes dictate the orientation of the nucleobases at the interfaces of the hybrid structures. The results of our study point towards a possible route to selectively control the orientation of individual molecules in biosensors.Citation
Vovusha H, Amorim RG, Scheicher RH, Sanyal B (2018) Controlling the orientation of nucleobases by dipole moment interaction with graphene/h-BN interfaces. RSC Advances 8: 6527–6531. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c7ra11664k.Sponsors
BS and HV acknowledge the Swedish Research Council as well as Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation for financial support. RA acknowledges financial support from the Carl Tryggers Foundation and RHS thanks the Swedish Research Council. The Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC) and the Uppsala Multidisciplinary Center for Advanced Computational Science (UPPMAX) provided computing time for this project.Publisher
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)Journal
RSC AdvancesAdditional Links
http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2018/ra/c7ra11664kae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1039/c7ra11664k
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