Hydration Dependent Band Gap Tunability of Self-Assembled Phenylalanine-Tryptophan Nanotubes

Hugo Souza; Antonio Chaves Neto; Francisco Sousa; Rodrigo Amorim; Alexandre Reily Rocha; Tarciso Andrade-Filho

doi:10.26434/chemrxiv.12720695.v1

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Hydration Dependent Band Gap Tunability of Self-Assembled Phenylalanine-Tryptophan Nanotubes

28 July 2020, Version 1

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Abstract

In this work, we investigate the effects of building block separation of Phenylalanine-Tryptophan nanotube induced by the confined water molecules on the electronic properties using density-functional theory based tight-binding method.

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Hydration-dependent band gap tunability of self-assembled phenylalanyl tryptophan nanotubes

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