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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Nov 26.
Published in final edited form as: ACS Nano. 2013 Oct 29;7(11):10.1021/nn404743f. doi: 10.1021/nn404743f

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Recognition tunneling: Two closely spaced electrodes are functionalized with recognition molecules (ICA) that form specific hydrogen bonds with DNA bases (shown here for thymine). Bonding is different for each base, resulting in characteristic current signals (I) when a bias (V) is applied across the gap.