Electronic structure of overstretched DNA

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 66, Issue 24, 2002, Pages 2411041-2411044

  Maragakis, Paul ^a   Barnett, Ryan Lee ^a   Kaxiras, Efthimios ^a   Elstner, Marcus ^b,c   Frauenheim, Thomas ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

^c GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONDUCTANCE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR MODEL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0037116144     PISSN: 01631829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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