Thermoelectric properties of oligoglycine molecular wires

Hou, S. and Wu, Q. and Sadeghi, H. and Lambert, C.J. (2019) Thermoelectric properties of oligoglycine molecular wires. Nanoscale, 11 (8). pp. 3567-3573. ISSN 2040-3364

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Abstract

We have investigated the electrical and thermoelectrical properties of glycine chains with and without cysteine terminal groups. The electrical conductance of (Gly) n , (Gly) n Cys and Cys(Gly) n Cys molecules (where Gly, Cys represent glycine and cysteine and n = 1-3) was found to decay exponentially with length l as e -βl . Our results show that connecting the molecules to gold electrodes via the sulphur atom of the cysteine moiety leads to higher β factors of 1.57 Å -1 and 1.22 Å -1 for (Gly) n Cys and Cys(Gly) n Cys respectively, while β = 0.92 Å -1 for (Gly) n . We also find that replacing the peptide bond with a methylene group (-CH 2 -) increases the conductance of (Gly) 3 Cys. Furthermore, we find the (Gly) 1 Cys and Cys(Gly) 1 Cys systems show good thermoelectrical performance, because of their high Seebeck coefficients (∼0.2 mV K -1 ) induced by the sulphur of the cysteine(s). With the contributions of both electrons and phonons taken into consideration, a high figure of merit ZT = 0.8 is obtained for (Gly) 1 Cys at room temperature, which increases further with increasing temperature, suggesting that peptide-based SAM junctions are promising candidates for thermoelectric energy harvesting.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Nanoscale
Uncontrolled Keywords:
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Subjects:
?? energy harvestingmoleculespeptidessulfurelectrical conductanceelectrons and phononshigh figure of merit ztincreasing temperaturesmethylene groupsmolecular wiresthermoelectric energythermoelectric propertiesamino acidsgeneral materials sciencematerials sci ??
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131822
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Deposited On:
02 Apr 2019 12:05
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Published
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