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JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR MODELING
Volume 21, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00894-015-2768-0
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Guanine; hBNNs; Work function; DFT theory
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- Vicerrectoria de Investigacion y Estudios de Posgrado-Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla [CHAE-ING15-G]
- Cuerpo Academico Ingenieria en Materiales [BUAP-CA-177]
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Density functional theory (DFT) calculations were performed to analyze changes in the structural and electronic properties generated by the interaction of a single nucleobase group (guanine) with the surface of boron nitride nanosheets with hexagonal symmetry (hBNNs). Nanosheets in two contexts were tested: pristine sheets and with point defects (doped with carbon atoms). The criterion of energy minimum was used to find the ground state of the nine possible isomers generated by the hBNNs. guanine interaction. The phenomenon of physisorption is known to occur at values less than 1.0 eV; the adsorption energy results revealed that the preferential geometry was a parallel arrangement between the two partners, with van der Waals-type bonds generated for the hBNNs doped with two carbon atoms. This was the only energetically stable configuration, thus revealing a vibrational mode rather than imaginaries. Furthermore, the hBNNs/C-guanine system has a low value for work function, and therefore could be used in health applications such drug transport and delivery. The increased polarity values suggest that these nanosheets could be solubilized in common solvents used in experimental processes.
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