Identification of DNA basepairing via tunnel-current decay

Nano Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3854-3858

  He, Jin ^a   Lin, Lisha ^a   Zhang, Peiming ^a   Lindsay, Stuart ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOSIDE MONOLAYER; TUNNEL CURRENT;

DECAY (ORGANIC); ELECTRODES; HYDROGEN BONDS; NANOPORES;

DNA;

DEOXYCYTIDINE; DNA; THYMIDINE;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; METHODOLOGY; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

BASE PAIRING; DEOXYCYTIDINE; DNA; MICROSCOPY, SCANNING TUNNELING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; THYMIDINE;

EID: 38049097635     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl0726205     Document Type: Article

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