TY - JOUR
T1 - Molecular doping of nucleic acids into light emitting crystals driven by multisite-intermolecular interaction
AU - Jung, Woo Hyuk
AU - Park, Jin Hyuk
AU - Kim, Seokho
AU - Cui, Chunzhi
AU - Ahn, Dong June
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2021R1A2C3009955 and 2017M3D1A1039421), 111 Project (D18012), and Korea University Grant. We acknowledge Dr. Yeol Kyo Choi for his discussions related to computational simulation and Yedam Lee for her assistance to holotomographic measurements.
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© 2022, The Author(s).
PY - 2022/12
Y1 - 2022/12
N2 - We reveal the fundamental understanding of molecular doping of DNAs into organic semiconducting tris (8-hydroxyquinoline) aluminum (Alq3) crystals by varying types and numbers of purines and pyrimidines constituting DNA. Electrostatic, hydrogen bonding, and π-π stacking interactions between Alq3 and DNAs are the major factors affecting the molecular doping. Longer DNAs induce a higher degree of doping due to electrostatic interactions between phosphate backbone and Alq3. Among four bases, single thymine bases induce the multisite interactions of π-π stacking and hydrogen bonding with single Alq3, occurring within a probability of 4.37%. In contrast, single adenine bases form multisite interactions, within lower probability (1.93%), with two-neighboring Alq3. These multisite interactions facilitate the molecular doping into Alq3 particles compared to cytosines or guanines only forming π-π stacking. Thus, photoluminescence and optical waveguide phenomena of crystals were successfully tailored. This discovery should deepen our fundamental understanding of incorporating DNAs into organic semiconducting crystals.
AB - We reveal the fundamental understanding of molecular doping of DNAs into organic semiconducting tris (8-hydroxyquinoline) aluminum (Alq3) crystals by varying types and numbers of purines and pyrimidines constituting DNA. Electrostatic, hydrogen bonding, and π-π stacking interactions between Alq3 and DNAs are the major factors affecting the molecular doping. Longer DNAs induce a higher degree of doping due to electrostatic interactions between phosphate backbone and Alq3. Among four bases, single thymine bases induce the multisite interactions of π-π stacking and hydrogen bonding with single Alq3, occurring within a probability of 4.37%. In contrast, single adenine bases form multisite interactions, within lower probability (1.93%), with two-neighboring Alq3. These multisite interactions facilitate the molecular doping into Alq3 particles compared to cytosines or guanines only forming π-π stacking. Thus, photoluminescence and optical waveguide phenomena of crystals were successfully tailored. This discovery should deepen our fundamental understanding of incorporating DNAs into organic semiconducting crystals.
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U2 - 10.1038/s41467-022-33999-y
DO - 10.1038/s41467-022-33999-y
M3 - Article
C2 - 36261659
AN - SCOPUS:85140247129
SN - 2041-1723
VL - 13
JO - Nature communications
JF - Nature communications
IS - 1
M1 - 6193
ER -