Stretching and breaking duplex DNA by chemical force microscopy

Chemistry and Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 519-527

  Noy, Aleksandr ^a   Vezenov, Dmitri V ^a   Kayyem, Jon F ^b,c   Meade, Thomas J ^b   Lieber, Charles M ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Clinical Micro Sensors   (United States)

Author keywords

Binding forces; Chemical force microscopy; DNA; Structural transition

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031194539     PISSN: 10745521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1074-5521(97)90324-0     Document Type: Article

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