Single molecule studies in chemical biology and nanosciences

Current Chemical Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 267-277

  Patra, Digambara ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Chemical biology; Chemo mechanical energy coupling; Conformation and folding; Defocused orientation imaging; Nanosciences; SMM; SMS

Indexed keywords

EID: 54749119760     PISSN: 18723136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/187231308785739783     Document Type: Review

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