Charge transfer through DNA has been well studied over recent decades from both a biological and electronics perspective. It has now been shown that charge transfer can be accelerated one hundredfold by using highly energetic 'hot holes', revealing a new mechanism that could help to create useful electronic biomaterials.
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Beratan, D., Waldeck, D. Hot holes break the speed limit. Nature Chem 8, 992–993 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.2655
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