Joining and scission in the self-assembly of nanotubes from DNA tiles

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 26 I, 2004, Pages

  Ekani Nkodo, Axel ^a   Kumar, Ashish ^a   Fygenson, Deborah Kuchnir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA NANOTUBES; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; PROTEIN POLYMERS; SCISSION EVENTS;

BIOPOLYMERS; DIFFRACTION; DNA; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORINE CONTAINING POLYMERS; OLIGOMERS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; OPTIMIZATION; PROTEINS; SELF ASSEMBLY; THERMAL EFFECTS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

NANOTUBES;

DNA; NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIFFUSION; DNA PROBE; MACROMOLECULE; METHODOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BINDING SITES; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIFFUSION; DNA; DNA PROBES; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; NANOTUBES; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION;

EID: 33645471225     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.268301     Document Type: Article

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