Actin-based metallic nanowires as bio-nanotransporters

Nature Materials

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 692-695

  Patolsky, Fernando ^a   Weizmann, Yossi ^a   Willner, Itamar ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; DNA; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GOLD; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; METALLIZING; MONOMERS; PLASTIC FILAMENTS; POLYMERIZATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WIRE;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ACTIN TEMPLATE; METAL DEPOSITION; MYOSIN INTERFACE; NANOWIRES;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

ACTIN; GOLD; METAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

ACTINS; GOLD; METALS; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 5444224746     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1205     Document Type: Article

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