Biological modification of carbon nanowalls with DNA strands and hybridization experiments with complementary and mismatched DNA

The authors acknowledge financial support by the Research Foundation-Flanders (FWO-Vlaanderen) in the framework of the project G.0159.07 'Structural and electronic properties of biologically modified graphene-based layers', a collaboration between Hasselt University, University of Antwerp and Catholic University Leuven. Furthermore, we acknowledge financial support from the federal Belgian BELSPO project IUP VI 'Quantum effects in clusters and nanowires'. S. W. is a postdoctoral research fellow of FWO-Vlaanderen and V. V. is a postdoc of the Institute for the Promotion of Innovation by Science and Technology in Flanders (IWT). We also want to thank Thomas Cleij and Milos Nesladek for fruitful discussions and helpful advice.