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A Density Functional Theory (DFT) Perspective on Optical Absorption of Modified Graphene Interacting with the Main Amino Acids of Spider Silk
We investigated the possible adsorption of each of the main building blocks of spider silk: alanine, glycine, leucine, and proline. This knowledge could help develop new biocompatible materials and favors the creation of new biosensors. We used ab initio density functional theory methods to study th...
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author | Jiménez-González, Ali Fransuani Ramírez-de-Arellano, Juan Manuel Magaña Solís, Luis Fernando |
author_facet | Jiménez-González, Ali Fransuani Ramírez-de-Arellano, Juan Manuel Magaña Solís, Luis Fernando |
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description | We investigated the possible adsorption of each of the main building blocks of spider silk: alanine, glycine, leucine, and proline. This knowledge could help develop new biocompatible materials and favors the creation of new biosensors. We used ab initio density functional theory methods to study the variations in the optical absorption, reflectivity, and band structure of a modified graphene surface interacting with these four molecules. Four modification cases were considered: graphene with vacancies at 5.55% and fluorine, nitrogen, or oxygen doping, also at 5.55%. We found that, among the cases considered, graphene with vacancies is the best candidate to develop optical biosensors to detect C=O amide and differentiate glycine and leucine from alanine and proline in the visible spectrum region. Finally, from the projected density of states, the main changes occur at deep energies. Thus, all modified graphene’s electronic energy band structure undergoes only tiny changes when interacting with amino acids. |
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spelling | pubmed-104188142023-08-12 A Density Functional Theory (DFT) Perspective on Optical Absorption of Modified Graphene Interacting with the Main Amino Acids of Spider Silk Jiménez-González, Ali Fransuani Ramírez-de-Arellano, Juan Manuel Magaña Solís, Luis Fernando Int J Mol Sci Article We investigated the possible adsorption of each of the main building blocks of spider silk: alanine, glycine, leucine, and proline. This knowledge could help develop new biocompatible materials and favors the creation of new biosensors. We used ab initio density functional theory methods to study the variations in the optical absorption, reflectivity, and band structure of a modified graphene surface interacting with these four molecules. Four modification cases were considered: graphene with vacancies at 5.55% and fluorine, nitrogen, or oxygen doping, also at 5.55%. We found that, among the cases considered, graphene with vacancies is the best candidate to develop optical biosensors to detect C=O amide and differentiate glycine and leucine from alanine and proline in the visible spectrum region. Finally, from the projected density of states, the main changes occur at deep energies. Thus, all modified graphene’s electronic energy band structure undergoes only tiny changes when interacting with amino acids. MDPI 2023-07-28 /pmc/articles/PMC10418814/ /pubmed/37569460 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms241512084 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Jiménez-González, Ali Fransuani Ramírez-de-Arellano, Juan Manuel Magaña Solís, Luis Fernando A Density Functional Theory (DFT) Perspective on Optical Absorption of Modified Graphene Interacting with the Main Amino Acids of Spider Silk |
title | A Density Functional Theory (DFT) Perspective on Optical Absorption of Modified Graphene Interacting with the Main Amino Acids of Spider Silk |
title_full | A Density Functional Theory (DFT) Perspective on Optical Absorption of Modified Graphene Interacting with the Main Amino Acids of Spider Silk |
title_fullStr | A Density Functional Theory (DFT) Perspective on Optical Absorption of Modified Graphene Interacting with the Main Amino Acids of Spider Silk |
title_full_unstemmed | A Density Functional Theory (DFT) Perspective on Optical Absorption of Modified Graphene Interacting with the Main Amino Acids of Spider Silk |
title_short | A Density Functional Theory (DFT) Perspective on Optical Absorption of Modified Graphene Interacting with the Main Amino Acids of Spider Silk |
title_sort | density functional theory (dft) perspective on optical absorption of modified graphene interacting with the main amino acids of spider silk |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10418814/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37569460 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms241512084 |
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