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. 2019 Jan 17;9(1):10. doi: 10.3390/life9010010

Table 4.

Report of calculated adsorption energies (ΔEads, in kcal mol−1) for the interaction of amino acids with TiO2 surfaces. The different amino acid states have been considered: deprotonated, zwitterionic, and canonical. GTO: Gaussian-type orbital.

Surface Amino Acid Amino Acid State Method ΔEads Ref.
Rutile (110) Glycine Deprotonated PW91/PWs −48.5 [160]
Glycine Zwitterionic PW91/PWs −47.1 [160]
Glycine Deprotonated PBE/PWs −31.3 [162]
Glycine Zwitterionic PBE/PWs −29.2 [162]
Proline Deprotonated PBE/PWs −30.6 [162]
Proline Zwitterionic PBE/PWs −26.1 [162]
Cysteine Deprotonated PBE/PWs −33.9 [166]
Cysteine Zwitterionic PBE/PWs −31.1 [166]
Anatase (101) Glycine Deprotonated PBE0/GTO −25.6 [168]
Glycine Zwitterionic PBE0/GTO −17.6 [168]
Glycine Canonical PBE0/GTO −26.7 [168]
Glycine Deprotonated PBE/PWs −25.9 [169]
Glycine Zwitterionic PBE/PWs −24.0 [169]
Glycine Canonical PBE/PWs −23.4 [169]