Attraction between the polycyclic aromatic surface elements of carbon nanotubes (CNT) and the aromatic nucleotides of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) leads to reversible adsorption (physisorption) between the two, a phenomenon related to hybridization. We propose a Hamiltonian formulation for the zipper model that accounts for the DNA-CNT interactions and allows for the processing of experimental data, which has awaited an available theory for a decade.
@article{arxiv.1912.01874,
title = {Statistical mechanics of DNA-nanotube adsorption},
author = {Shushanik Tonoyan and Davit Khechoyan and Yevgeni Mamasakhlisov and Artem Badasyan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.01874},
year = {2020}
}