Marked discreteness on the coil-globule transition of single duplex DNA

Berichte der Bunsengesellschaft/Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 876-880

  Yoshikawa, K ^a,b,c   Kidoaki, S ^a,b,c   Takahashi, M ^a,b,c   Vasitevskaya, V V ^a,b,c   Khokhlov, A R ^a,b,c  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b A N NESMEYANOV INSTITUTE OF ORGANOELEMENT COMPOUNDS   (Russian Federation)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Critical phenomena; Fluorescence; Phase transitions; Polymers

Indexed keywords

EID: 0642350340     PISSN: 0940483X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bbpc.19961000631     Document Type: Article

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