Energy Band Gap and Optical Transition of Metal Ion Modified Double Crossover DNA Lattices

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• 作者：Sreekantha Reddy Dugasani ; Taewoo Ha ; Bramaramba Gnapareddy ; Kyujin Choi ; Junwye Lee ; Byeonghoon Kim ; Jae Hoon Kim ; Sung Ha Park
• 刊名：ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
• 出版年：2014
• 出版时间：October 22, 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：6
• 期：20
• 页码：17599-17605
• 全文大小：479K
• ISSN：1944-8252

文摘

We report on the energy band gap and optical transition of a series of divalent metal ion (Cu²⁺, Ni²⁺, Zn²⁺, and Co²⁺) modified DNA (M鈥揇NA) double crossover (DX) lattices fabricated on fused silica by the substrate-assisted growth (SAG) method. We demonstrate how the degree of coverage of the DX lattices is influenced by the DX monomer concentration and also analyze the band gaps of the M鈥揇NA lattices. The energy band gap of the M鈥揇NA, between the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) and the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO), ranges from 4.67 to 4.98 eV as judged by optical transitions. Relative to the band gap of a pristine DNA molecule (4.69 eV), the band gap of the M鈥揇NA lattices increases with metal ion doping up to a critical concentration and then decreases with further doping. Interestingly, except for the case of Ni²⁺, the onset of the second absorption band shifts to a lower energy until a critical concentration and then shifts to a higher energy with further increasing the metal ion concentration, which is consistent with the evolution of electrical transport characteristics. Our results show that controllable metal ion doping is an effective method to tune the band gap energy of DNA-based nanostructures.

Keywords:

DNA; lattices; M鈭扗NA; energy band gap; HOMO鈭扡UMO; optical transition