AFM Nanodissection Reveals Internal Structural Details of Single Collagen Fibrils

Nano Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 129-132

  Wen, Chuck K ^a   Goh, M Cynthia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN FIBER;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BIOLOGY; FRICTION; METHODOLOGY; NANODISSECTION; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 0842330464     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl034685n     Document Type: Article

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