Massively parallel adhesion and reactivity measurements using simple and inexpensive magnetic tweezers

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 92, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 5584-5586

  Assi, Fabiano ^a   Jenks, Robert ^a   Yang, Jerry ^b   Love, Christopher ^b   Prentiss, Mara ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MOLECULE; BOND CHARACTERISTICS; MAGNETIC TWEEZERS; MICRO FLUIDIC SYSTEM; MICROPIPETTES; REACTION DYNAMICS; REACTIVITY MEASUREMENTS; SINGLE MOLECULE; SINGLE-MOLECULE TECHNIQUE;

ADHESION; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; MOLECULES; OPTICAL TWEEZERS;

NUCLEIC ACIDS;

EID: 18744388926     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1509086     Document Type: Article

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