Mechanisms for DNA charge transport

JC Genereux, JK Barton - Chemical reviews, 2010 - ACS Publications
DNA charge transport (CT) chemistry has received considerable attention by scientific
researchers over the past 15 years since our first provocative publication on long-range CT …

Bridging nonliving and living matter

S Rasmussen, L Chen, M Nilsson, S Abe - Artificial life, 2003 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Assembling non-biological materials (geomaterials) into a proto-organism constitutes a
bridge between nonliving and living matter. In this article we present a simple step-by-step …

DNA electron transfer processes: Some theoretical notions

YA Berlin, IV Kurnikov, D Beratan, MA Ratner… - Long-Range Charge …, 2004 - Springer
Charge motion within DNA stacks, probed by measurements of electric conductivity and by
time-resolved and steady-state damage yield measurements, is determined by a complex …

Electronic parameters for charge transfer along DNA

LGD Hawke, G Kalosakas, C Simserides - The European Physical Journal …, 2010 - Springer
We systematically examine all the tight-binding parameters pertinent to charge transfer
along DNA. The π molecular structure of the four DNA bases (adenine, thymine, cytosine …

Combined density functional theory and Landauer approach for hole transfer in DNA along classical molecular dynamics trajectories

PB Woiczikowski, T Kubař, R Gutiérrez… - The Journal of …, 2009 - pubs.aip.org
We investigate in detail the charge transport characteristics of DNA wires with various
sequences and lengths in the presence of solvent. Our approach combines large-scale …

Sequence-specific thermal fluctuations identify start sites for DNA transcription

G Kalosakas, KØ Rasmussen, AR Bishop… - Europhysics …, 2004 - iopscience.iop.org
We report successful comparisons between model predictions for intrinsic thermal openings
and experimental transcription data, showing that large and slow thermally induced …

Nonequilibrium dynamics of the Holstein polaron driven by an external electric field

L Vidmar, J Bonča, M Mierzejewski, P Prelovšek… - Physical Review B …, 2011 - APS
This work represents a fundamental study of a Holstein polaron in one dimension driven
away from the ground state by a constant electric field. Taking fully into account quantum …

DNA spintronics: Charge and spin dynamics in DNA wires

S Behnia, S Fathizadeh, A Akhshani - The Journal of Physical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
A combined analytical approach is proposed to investigate the spin-selectivity properties of
DNA nanowires considering the spin degree of freedom in the extended Peyrard–Bishop …

Exact solutions for a modified Schrödinger equation

Y Benia, M Ruggieri, A Scapellato - Mathematics, 2019 - mdpi.com
The aim of this paper was to propose a systematic study of a (1+ 1)-dimensional higher
order nonlinear Schrödinger equation, arising in two different contexts regarding the …

Dissipative effects in the electronic transport through DNA molecular wires

R Gutiérrez, S Mandal, G Cuniberti - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter …, 2005 - APS
We investigate the influence of a dissipative environment which effectively comprises the
effects of counterions and hydration shells, on the transport properties of short DNA wires …