Biological and Medical Sensor Technologies

2 Physics and Modeling of DNA-Derivative Architectures for Long-Wavelength Bio-Sensing

Alexei Bykhovski and Dwight Woolard

CONTENTS

2.1     Introduction

2.2     Biological-Semiconducting Interfaces

2.3     Novel Biological Architectural Concepts Based upon Light-Induced Switching

2.4     Hybrid Ab-Initio/Emperical Modeling of Stilbene-Derivative/DNA Complexes

2.4.1     Background

2.4.2     Molecular-Mechanical Studies

2.4.3     Hybrid QM/MM Studies

2.5     Characterization of Active Molecules in Polyethylene Matrices

2.6     Light-Induced Transitions in Multidimensional Molecular Coordinate Spaces

2.7     Conclusions

Acknowledgment

References

2.1 Introduction

The physics and modeling of biological molecular components is discussed in the context ...