A MOLECULAR PHOTOIONIC AND GATE BASED ON FLUORESCENT SIGNALING
A MOLECULAR PHOTOIONIC AND GATE BASED ON FLUORESCENT SIGNALING
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DOI:
10.1038/364042a0
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发表时间:
1993-07-01
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影响因子:
64.8
通讯作者:
MCCOY, CP
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作者:
DE SILVA, AP;GUNARATNE, HQN;MCCOY, CP
MOLECULES at perform logic operations are prerequisites for molecular information processing and computation1-11. We12,13 and others14-16 have previously reported receptor molecules that can be considered to perform simple logic operations by coupling ionic bonding or more complex molecular-recognition processes with photonic (fluorescence) signals: in these systems, chemical binding (the 'input') results in a change in fluorescence intensity (the 'output') from the receptor. Here we describe a receptor (molecule (1) in Fig. 1) that operates as a logic device with two input channels: the fluorescence signal depends on whether the molecule binds hydrogen ions, sodium ions or both. The input/output characteristics of this molecular device correspond to those of an AND gate.