Liquid crystal formation in DNA fragment solutions

Biopolymers

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 31-37

  Kassapidou, K ^a   Jesse, W ^a   Van Dijk, J A P P ^a   Van Der Maarel, J R C ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

DNA fragments; DNA liquid crystals; Screened Coulomb interactions

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ENTROPY; EQUATIONS OF STATE OF SOLIDS; FREE ENERGY; IONIC STRENGTH; LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PHASE SEPARATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; VOLUME FRACTION;

CARNAHAN-STARLING EQUATION OF STATE; CHOLESTERIC ISOTROPIC TRANSITION; COULOMB INTERACTIONS; DEBYE-HUCKEL POTENTIAL; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPY; SCALED PARTICLE THEORY; SECOND VIRIAL APPROXIMATION; THERMODYNAMIC PERTURBATION;

DNA;

DNA FRAGMENT;

ARTICLE; DNA STRUCTURE; ENTROPY; IONIC STRENGTH; LIQUID CRYSTAL; MICROSCOPY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; POLARIZATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

CRYSTALLIZATION; DNA FRAGMENTATION; MICROSCOPY, POLARIZATION;

EID: 0032125198     PISSN: 00063525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0282(199807)46:1<31::aid-bip3>3.0.co;2-z     Document Type: Article

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