NDLI: Landscape of DNA-like inorganic metal free double helical semiconductors and potential applications in photocatalytic water splitting

Content Provider	Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
Author	Ma, Yandong Li, Mengmeng Dai, Ying Li, Xinru Yu, Lin Huang, Baibiao
Copyright Year	2017
Abstract	Organic double helical structures such as deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and poly(tetrafluoroethylene) play important roles in organisms and industry. Enlightened by recent experimental progress, a novel family of DNA-like inorganic metal free structures XYP (X = Si, Ge, Sn; Y = Cl, Br, I) were investigated using first principle calculations. All these structures were identified that as being semiconductors and, in particular, their band gaps corresponded to wavelengths of 419–561 nm, which implies semiconducting absorption in the visible spectra. Partial charge densities indicate an ideal space separation of electrons and holes, which can highly reduce the recombination of carriers in redox reactions. By comparing the band edge positions with the redox potentials of water, it was also found that XYPs are excellent photocatalysts for water splitting. Furthermore, the electron mobility of one-dimensional XYP is estimated to be up to 2164 cm2 V−1 s−1, which is comparable with or even larger than that of other nanomaterials. These systematic studies on DNA-like inorganic semiconductors with applications in photocatalytic water splitting and high speed electronic devices will open a new page in the world of inorganic-DNA nanomaterials.
Starting Page	8484
Ending Page	8492
Page Count	9
File Format	HTM / HTML PDF
ISSN	20507488
Volume Number	5
Issue Number	18
Journal	Journal of Materials Chemistry A
DOI	10.1039/c7ta01349c
Language	English
Publisher	Royal Society of Chemistry
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Ge Acid DNA Tetrafluoroethylene Partial charge Carrier generation and recombination Redox Water splitting Electron mobility Nanomaterials Photocatalytic water splitting
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Chemistry Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment Materials Science

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