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Novel Molecular Diodes Developed by Chemical Conjugation of Carbon Nanotubes with Peptide Nucleic Acid

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In this work single walled carbon nanotube (SWNT)-peptide nucleic acid (PNA) conjugates are synthesized and their electrical properties are characterized. Metal contacts to SWNT-PNA-SWNT conjugates, used for current–voltage (I–V ) measurements, are fabricated by two different methods: direct placement on pre-patterned gold electrodes and metal deposition using focused ion beam (FIB). Back-gated I–V measurements are used to determine the electronic properties of these conjugates. Additionally, conductive atomic force microscopy (C-AFM) is used to characterize the intrinsic charge transport characteristics of individual PNA clusters.

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We gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Nanomanufacturing Program of the National Science Foundation (NSF) (grant no: 0800680), the FCRP Center on Functional Engineered Nano Architectonics funded by the SRC and DARPA, and the Center for Hierarchical Manufacturing (CHM) funded by the NSF.

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  1. Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA

    Krishna V. Singh

  2. Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA

    Miroslav Penchev, Xiaoye Jing, Alfredo A. Martinez–Morales & Mihri Ozkan

  3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA

    Cengiz S. Ozkan

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Singh, K.V., Penchev, M., Jing, X., Martinez–Morales, A.A., Ozkan, C.S., Ozkan, M. (2010). Novel Molecular Diodes Developed by Chemical Conjugation of Carbon Nanotubes with Peptide Nucleic Acid. In: Baleanu, D., Guvenc, Z., Machado, J. (eds) New Trends in Nanotechnology and Fractional Calculus Applications. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3293-5_1

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