ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2019
Voltage-induced long-range coherent electron transfer through organic molecules.
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- Bioimaging guided pharmaceutical evaluations of nanomedicines for clinical translations.Journal of nanobiotechnology · 2022Review
- What Can We Learn from Protein-Based Electron Transport Junctions?The journal of physical chemistry letters · 2021Article
- DNA Electrochemistry: Charge-Transport Pathways through DNA Films on Gold.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2021Article
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- Atomic fluctuations in electronic materials revealed by dephasing.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- 2'-Deoxy-2'-fluoro-arabinonucleic acid: a valid alternative to DNA for biotechnological applications using charge transport.Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP · 2019Article
- Why Are DNA and Protein Electron Transfer So Different?Annual review of physical chemistry · 2019Review
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Abstract
Biological structures rely on kinetically tuned charge transfer reactions for energy conversion, biocatalysis, and signaling as well as for oxidative damage repair. Unlike man-made electrical circuitry, which uses metals and semiconductors to direct current flow, charge transfer in living systems proceeds via biomolecules that are nominally insulating. Long-distance charge transport, which is observed routinely in nucleic acids, peptides, and proteins, is believed to arise from a sequence of thermally activated hopping steps. However, a growing number of experiments find limited temperature dependence for electron transfer over tens of nanometers. To account for these observations, we propose a temperature-independent mechanism based on the electric potential difference that builds up along the molecule as a precursor of electron transfer. Specifically, the voltage changes the nature of the electronic states away from being sharply localized so that efficient resonant tunneling across long distances becomes possible without thermal assistance. This mechanism is general and is expected to be operative in molecules where the electronic states densely fill a wide energy window (on the scale of electronvolts) above or below the gap between the highest-occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) and the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO). We show that this effect can explain the temperature-independent charge transport through DNA and the strongly voltage-dependent currents that are measured through organic semiconductors and peptides.
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