Fluorescein as a model molecular calculator with reset capability

Nature Materials

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 768-771

  Margulies, David ^a   Melman, Galina ^a   Shanzer, Abraham ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDITION REACTIONS; ALGEBRA; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; DYES; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; SUBSTRATES;

ALGEBRAIC OPERATIONS; CHEMICAL COMPUTATION SYSTEMS; MOLECULAR ARITHMETIC SYSTEMS; SODIUM HYDROXIDES;

FLUORESCENCE;

FLUORESCEIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EVALUATION; GENETIC PROCEDURES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR COMPUTER; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

COMPUTERS, MOLECULAR; FLUORESCEIN; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR PROBE TECHNIQUES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 25844438771     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1469     Document Type: Article

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