Optical, electro-optic and optoelectronic properties of natural and chemically modified DNAs

Young Wan Kwon; Dong Hoon Choi; Jung Il Jin

doi:10.1038/pj.2012.165

Optical, electro-optic and optoelectronic properties of natural and chemically modified DNAs

Young Wan Kwon
, Dong Hoon Choi
, Jung Il Jin^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

This article reviews recent findings on the optical, electro-optic and optoelectronic properties of natural and modified DNAs. When the sodium (Na ⁺) ions of DNA are replaced with long alkyl quaternary ammonium (Q⁺) ions, the resulting compositions (Q⁺ DNA^- ) are organic-soluble, and thin films produced using these materials reveal many interesting optical and optoelectronic properties. These films tend to form well-structured supramolecular assemblies. In contrast, natural DNAs are water-soluble and hygroscopic. DNAs are strong absorbers of UV wavelengths in the region of 260 nm. The Q⁺ DNA films are excellent dielectrics that can be utilized as insulating layers in organic thin film transistors. Chemical modification of the Q⁺ parts results in many interesting structures that can be used in a wide variety of optical and optoelectronic devices. This review specifically deals with the optical and fluorescence properties of, organic lasing composites, the nonlinear optical characteristics of, light-emitting diodes, and photovoltaic cells based on natural and modified DNAs.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1191-1208
Number of pages	18
Journal	Polymer Journal
Volume	44
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/pj.2012.165
Publication status	Published - 2012 Dec

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (2010-0013225), for which Y-W Kwon is thankful. We appreciate the constructive comments made by Professor Chang Hoon Lee and Dr Eui-Kwan Koh to this article. We congratulate the Society of Polymer Science, Japan, for the 60th anniversary of its foundation.

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Keywords

DNA
DNAQ
FRET
NLO
OLED
lasing
photovoltaic

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Polymers and Plastics
Materials Chemistry

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