High resolution imaging of native biological sample surfaces using scanning probe microscopy

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 279-284

  Engel, Andreas ^a   Schoenenberger, Cora Ann ^a   Müller, Daniel J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY; TOPOGRAPHY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030951962     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-440X(97)80037-1     Document Type: Article

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