Aviram-Ratner rectifying mechanism for DNA base-pair sequencing through graphene nanogaps

Nanotechnology

Volumn 23, Issue 13, 2012, Pages

  Agapito, Luis A ^a   Gayles, Jacob ^a,b   Wolowiec, Christian ^a,c   Kioussis, Nicholas ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO; BASE PAIRS; BIOLOGICAL MOLECULE; COMPUTATIONAL IMPLEMENTATIONS; CURRENT-VOLTAGE RESPONSE; DNA SEQUENCING; ELECTRICAL RESPONSE; NANO-GAP; NANOGAPS; NON EQUILIBRIUM; NUCLEOBASES; SHARP CONTRAST; SPATIAL SEPARATION; SYMMETRIC RESPONSE; TECHNOLOGICAL CHALLENGES; WATSON-CRICK DNA; WEAK HYDROGEN BONDING;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; GRAPHENE; HYDROGEN BONDS;

GENE ENCODING;

DNA; GRAPHITE; NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

BASE PAIRING; DNA; ELECTROCHEMICAL TECHNIQUES; GRAPHITE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84858393480     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/23/13/135202     Document Type: Article

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