DNA in a liquid-crystalline environment: Tight bends, rings, supercoils

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1270-1286

  Odijk, Theo ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 0000406670     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.471966     Document Type: Article

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