DNA as Functional Material in Organic-Based Electronics

Liang, Lijuan; Fu, Yabo; Wang, Dongdong; Wei, Yen; Kobayashi, Norihisa; Minari, Takeo

doi:10.3390/app8010090

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“…[154][155][156][157][158][159][160] The relationship between N-PDIs and DNA has been the subject of the most widespread investigation due to its role in disease and the emerging interest in using DNA as a molecular wire, data storage, and other electronics applications. [161][162][163][164][165][166][167] Manipulations of the DNA scaffold have long been a core component within the biochemistry field, leading to an exciting crossover between biological and semiconductor sciences. 48 When base pairs are removed from DNA strands containing a deoxyribose (dSn) spacer, a corresponding number of cPDI chromophores (P[n]) coordinate in the formed pocket through hydrophobic interactions.…”

Section: Biochemistrymentioning

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Concepts and principles of self-n-doping in perylene diimide chromophores for applications in biochemistry, energy harvesting, energy storage, and catalysis

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Whittaker‐Brooks

2022

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Self-doping is an important method of increasing carrier concentrations in organic electronics that completely eliminates the need to tailor host—dopant miscibility; a necessary step when employing molecular dopants. Self-n-doping can be accomplished using amine or ammonium moieties as an electron source, and is being incorporated into an ever-increasingly diverse range of organic materials spanning many applications. Self-n-doped materials have demonstrated good, and in many cases, benchmark performances in a variety of applications. However, an in-depth review of the method is lacking. Perylene diimide (PDI) chromophores are an important mainstay in the semiconductor literature with well-known structure-function characteristics and are also one of the most widely utilized scaffolds for self-n-doping. In this review, we describe the unique properties of self-n-doped PDIs, delineate structure-function relationships, and discuss self-n-doped PDI performance in a range of applications. In particular, the impact of amine/ammonium incorporation into the PDI scaffold on doping efficiency is reviewed with regard to attachment mode, tether distance, counterion selection, and steric encumbrance. Self-n-doped PDIs are a unique set of PDI structural derivatives whose properties are amenable to a broad range of applications in biochemistry, solar energy conversion, thermoelectric modules, batteries, and photocatalysis. Finally, we discuss challenges and the future outlook of self-n-doping principles.

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Section: Biochemistrymentioning

confidence: 99%

Concepts and principles of self-n-doping in perylene diimide chromophores for applications in biochemistry, energy harvesting, energy storage, and catalysis

Powell

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2022

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“…Moreover, being renewable, biodegradable and environmentally-friendly, biomaterials can lead to non-polluting technologies and effective cost reduction of the electronic devices 1 , 6 . In the last years, devices, such as organic field effect transistors (OFET), organic light emitting diodes (OLED), optical amplifiers, nonlinear optical electro-optical modulators fabricated with biopolymers have demonstrated high performances 7 – 10 .…”

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confidence: 99%

Nucleobases thin films deposited on nanostructured transparent conductive electrodes for optoelectronic applications

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Environmentally-friendly bio-organic materials have become the centre of recent developments in organic electronics, while a suitable interfacial modification is a prerequisite for future applications. In the context of researches on low cost and biodegradable resource for optoelectronics applications, the influence of a 2D nanostructured transparent conductive electrode on the morphological, structural, optical and electrical properties of nucleobases (adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine and uracil) thin films obtained by thermal evaporation was analysed. The 2D array of nanostructures has been developed in a polymeric layer on glass substrate using a high throughput and low cost technique, UV-Nanoimprint Lithography. The indium tin oxide electrode was grown on both nanostructured and flat substrate and the properties of the heterostructures built on these two types of electrodes were analysed by comparison. We report that the organic-electrode interface modification by nano-patterning affects both the optical (transmission and emission) properties by multiple reflections on the walls of nanostructures and the electrical properties by the effect on the organic/electrode contact area and charge carrier pathway through electrodes. These results encourage the potential application of the nucleobases thin films deposited on nanostructured conductive electrode in green optoelectronic devices.

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“…Among available biomass feedstocks, nucleic acids (e.g., DNA, RNA) represent ubiquitous biomacromolecules readily available at a reasonable cost from fish milt, plants, yeasts, and other renewable sources. While the occurrence of nucleic acids is lower compared to polysaccharide types of biomass, and the adaptation of DNA for materials production is still in progress, potential applications of DNA in biomedical [3][4][5], environmental [6][7][8][9][10], electronic [11], optical [12], and engineering [13][14][15] fields have been repeatedly demonstrated. A very recent report introduced the concept of "DNA biomass" highlighting transformation of DNA to functional soft materials and even to biodegradable plastics [13].…”

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Fluorescent Nanoparticles Synthesized from DNA, RNA, and Nucleotides

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Ubiquitous on Earth DNA and other nucleic acids are being increasingly considered as promising biomass resources. Due to their unique chemical structure, which is different from that of a more common carbohydrate biomass polymers, materials based on nucleic acids may exhibit new attractive characteristics. In this study, fluorescent nanoparticles (biodots) were prepared by a hydrothermal (HT) method from various nucleic acids (DNA, RNA, nucleotides, and nucleosides) to establish the relationship between the structure of precursors and fluorescent properties of biodots and to optimize conditions for preparation of the most fluorescent product. HT treatment of nucleic acids results in decomposition of sugar moieties and depurination/depyrimidation of nucleobases, while their consequent condensation and polymerization gives fluorescent nanoparticles. Fluorescent properties of DNA and RNA biodots are drastically different from biodots synthesized from individual nucleotides. In particular, biodots synthesized from purine-containing nucleotides or nucleosides show up to 50-fold higher fluorescence compared to analogous pyrimidine-derived biodots. The polymeric nature of a precursor disfavors formation of a bright fluorescent product. The reported effect of the structure of the nucleic acid precursor on the fluorescence properties of biodots should help designing and synthesizing brighter fluorescent nanomaterials with broader specification for bioimaging, sensing, and other applications.

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DNA as Functional Material in Organic-Based Electronics

Cited by 21 publications

References 52 publications

Concepts and principles of self-n-doping in perylene diimide chromophores for applications in biochemistry, energy harvesting, energy storage, and catalysis

Concepts and principles of self-n-doping in perylene diimide chromophores for applications in biochemistry, energy harvesting, energy storage, and catalysis

Nucleobases thin films deposited on nanostructured transparent conductive electrodes for optoelectronic applications

Fluorescent Nanoparticles Synthesized from DNA, RNA, and Nucleotides

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