Could humans recognize odor by phonon assisted tunneling?

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Brookes, Jennifer C ^a   Hartoutsiou, Filio ^a   Horsfield, A P ^a   Stoneham, A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; ELECTRON TUNNELING; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PHONONS; SENSORY PERCEPTION;

BIOMOLECULAR SYSTEMS; NOSE; ODORANTS; RECEPTORS;

ODORS;

EID: 33846392872     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.038101     Document Type: Article

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