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DNA charge transfer

Hot holes break the speed limit

Nature Chemistry volume 8, pages 992–993 (2016)Cite this article

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Charge transfer through DNA has been well studied over recent decades from both a biological and electronics perspective. It has now been shown that charge transfer can be accelerated one hundredfold by using highly energetic 'hot holes', revealing a new mechanism that could help to create useful electronic biomaterials.

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Figure 1: Energy schemes for hole transport in DNA.

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  1. D. N. Beratan is in the Departments of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Physics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA,

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  2. D. H. Waldeck is in Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, Chevron Science Center, 219 Parkman Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA,

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