Theoretical study of electronic properties of Feporphyrin adsorbed on SiC nanotube

Silicon carbide nanotubes (SiCNT) have enormous potential for applications in high powered and high-temperature electronics owing to the high reactivity of the exterior surface, which facilitates side wall decoration and stability against oxidation in air at high temperatures.Metalloporphyrine are a class of π–conjugated organic chromophores that are useful and play vital roles in our life and biological systems such as this class of molecule have flat, planer aromatic structure are ideal for π–stacking interaction with nano tubes. They can also coordinate with some metal ions and can influence on the electron transport through the molecule .For instance, Fe-porphyrin (FeP) is key complex that used as catalytic processes and also is responsible for oxygen transport (hemoglobin in blood), electron transport (cytochromes) and myoglobin for storing oxygen in cell. Evidently, it is excellent to study the interactions between metalloporphyrin and SiC from a theoretical point of view and illustrate stability, structure of metalloporphyrin-SiCNT system.In the present work, we report a detailed theoretical investigation on Silicon carbide nanotubes (SiCNT) with a Fe porphyrin (FeP) complex by means of density functional theory (DFT) calculations. For all calculations, we utilize the Perdew-Burke-Erzenhof functional as employed in the SIESTA package, with a double ζ plus polarization basis set. The detailed analysis of the structural and electronics properties of various optimized configurations is performed. The results show that FeP molecule on the Si site and zigzag orientation is the most energetically preferable with -2.10 eV binding energy that can strongly adsorbed on the SiCNT. Furthermore, Using spin-polarized DFT calculations, we assess the effects of the adsorption of FeP on the energy gap of SiCNT. Our results propose that FeP-SiCNT complex could be used in interesting applications such as designing spintronic molecular devices and biosensor

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Silicon carbide nanotubes ، Metalloporphyrine ، Density Functional Theory ، Binding energy