Dynamics of individual flexible polymers in a shear flow

Nature

Volumn 399, Issue 6736, 1999, Pages 564-566

  LeDuc, Philip ^a   Haber, Charbel ^a   Bao, Gang ^a   Wirtz, Denis ^a  

^a Departments of Orthopaedic Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; POLYMER;

POLYMER; SHEAR FLOW;

ARTICLE; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA DETERMINATION; FLOW; FLOW KINETICS; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOW RATE; MOTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEAR RATE;

BIOPOLYMERS; DNA; DNA, VIRAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PLIABILITY; RHEOLOGY; T-PHAGES; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 0033542474     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/21148     Document Type: Article

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