Stretching Single Stranded DNA, a Model Polyelectrolyte

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 24, 2002, Pages

  Dessinges, M N ^a   Maier, B ^a,b   Zhang, Y ^c   Peliti, M ^a   Bensimon, D ^a   Croquette, V ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DE PHYSIQUE STATISTIQUE   (France)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c Laboratory of Computational Genomics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROLYTE; POLYMER; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; ELASTICITY; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; ELASTICITY; ELECTROLYTES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; POLYMERS; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

ELASTICITY; ELECTROSTATICS; POLYELECTROLYTES;

PHYSICOCHEMICAL TREATMENT;

DNA;

EID: 18744407040     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.248102     Document Type: Article

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