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水溶液中分子的偏压电子输运

Finite-bias electronic transport of molecules in water solution

I. Rungger, X. Chen, U. Schwingenschlögl, S. Sanvito

摘要:

结合经典分子动力学和第一性原理电子输运计算,从理论上研究了水润湿条件对分子纳米结输运性质的影响.这些都是在自相互作用校正密度泛函理论实现的非平衡格林函数方法的水平。我们发现,水有效地产生静电门控的分子结,门控电位由时间平均的水偶极子场。这样的领域是大的极性苯-二硫醇分子,导致在相对于干结的透射光谱移动约0.6 eV。碳纳米管(CNT)的情况截然不同。事实上,由于它们的疏水性质,门控几乎可以忽略不计,因此湿Au/CNT/Au结的平均透射光谱基本上与干燥条件下的相同。这表明,碳纳米管也可以在水润湿的情况下用作分子互连,例如在溶液或生物传感器中用作扫描隧道显微镜的尖端。

英文摘要:

The effects of water wetting conditions on the transport properties of molecular nano-junctions are investigated theoretically by using a combination of classical molecular dynamics and first principles electronic transport calculations. These are at the level of the non-equilibrium Green's function method implemented for self-interaction corrected density functional theory. We find that water effectively produces electrostatic gating to the molecular junction, with a gating potential determined by the time-averaged water dipole field. Such a field is large for the polar benzene-dithiol molecule, resulting in a transmission spectrum shifted by about 0.6 eV with respect to that of the dry junction. The situation is drastically different for carbon nanotubes (CNTs). In fact, because of their hydro-phobic nature the gating is almost negligible, so that the average transmission spectrum of wet Au/CNT/Au junctions is essentially the same as that in dry conditions. This suggests that CNTs can be used as molecular interconnects also in water-wet situations, for instance as tips for scanning tunnel microscopy in solution or in biological sensors.

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