Electronics and Structural Properties of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Interacting with a Glucose Molecule: ab initio Calculations

摘要

The adsorption of glucose molecule on single-walled carbon nanotubes(SWCNTs)is investigated by density functional theory calculations.Adsorption energies and equilibrium distances are evaluated,and glucose binding to the typical semiconducting and metallic nanotubes with various diameters and chirality are compared.We also investigated the role of the structural defects on the adsorption capability of the SWCNTs.We could observe larger adsorption energies for the larger diameters semiconducting CNTs,while the story is paradoxical for the metallic CNTs.The obtained results reveal that the adsorption energy is significantly higher for nanotubes with higher chiral angles.Finally,the adsorption energies are calculated for defected nanotubes for various configurations such as glucose molecule approaching to the pentagon,hexagon,and heptagon sites in the tube surface.We find that the respected defects have a minor contribution to the adsorption mechanism of the glucose on SWNTs.The calculation of electron transfers and the density of states supports that the electronic properties of SWCNTs do not change significantly after the gluycose molecular adsorption.Consequently,one can predict that presence of glucose would neither modify the electronic structure of the SWCNTs nor direct to a change in the conductivity of the intrinsic nanotubes.