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Title:
Anomalous doping effect on Ag-doped DNA conductor

Language:English
Type:Article
Authors:Hiroyuki Mayama, T. Hiroya, K. Inagaki, S. Tanda and Kenichi Yoshikawa
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Journal:Chemical Physics Letters
ISSN:0009-2614
Volume:397
Number:1-3
Month:10
Year:2004
Actual year:2004
Pages:101–105
doi:10.1016/j.cplett.2004.08.061
bibtex id:2004_CPL_Mayama_04-15_303
Abstract:
We report novel experimental results of chemical doping effect on Ag-doped DNA conductor. The prepared Ag-doped DNA samples were confirmed by EXAFS that Ag+ was doped into pi-way. In I-V measurements at room temperature, nonlinear I-V curves with hysteresis emerged and systematic change in electrical conductivity a was observed from 10(-10) to 10(-6) Omega(-1) cm(-1) under doping condition [Ag+]/[Base pair] = 10(-6)-10. The relation between the conductivity and dopant concentration showed a weak dependence a proportional to [Ag+](0.5). This 'weakly doping effect' may be caused by the long-range correlated randomness of sequence in DNA, in contrast with usual doped organic conductors. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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2004
"Anomalous doping effect on Ag-doped DNA conductor"
Hiroyuki Mayama, T. Hiroya, K. Inagaki, S. Tanda and Kenichi Yoshikawa, Chemical Physics Letters, 397(1-3), 101–105 (2004)
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doi:10.1016/j.cplett.2004.08.061