Abstract
We carried out molecular dynamics simulations to study the adsorption of all the 20 amino acids (AAs; aromatic, polar and non-polar) on the surface of chiral, zigzag and armchair single-walled carbon nanotubes. The adsorption was occurring in all systems. In the aromatic AAs, the π–π stacking and the semi-hydrogen bond formation cause a strong interaction with the carbon nanotubes (CNTs). We also investigated the chirality, length and diameter dependencies on adsorption energies. We found that all AAs have more tendency to adsorption on the chiral and zigzag CNTs over the armchair. The results show that increasing both the diameter and the length causes the enhancement of the adsorption energy. But, the effect of the length is more than of the diameter. For example, the adsorption energy of Trp on the surface of CNT (4,1), with 2 nm length, is 20.4 kcal/mol. When the length of CNT becomes twice, the adsorption energy increases by 24 ± 0.3%. But by doubling the diameter, the adsorption energy increased only by 9.8 ± 0.25%.
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