A "Shooting Bead" method for finding the flexural rigidity of semiflexible rodlike biological filaments

Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2041-2044

  Samarbakhsh, Abdorreza ^a   Tuszynski, Jack A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b CROSS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biopolymer; Cantilever; Flexural rigidity; Laser tweezer; Microsphere

Indexed keywords

BIOMOLECULES; FILAMENTS (LAMP); LASERS; MICROSPHERES; NANOCANTILEVERS; POLYMERS;

CANTILEVER; CANTILEVER STIFFNESSES; FLEXURAL RIGIDITY; HARMONIC MOTIONS; LASER TWEEZER; SUDDEN RELEASES;

RIGIDITY;

EID: 57649245577     PISSN: 15461955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1166/jctn.2008.1011     Document Type: Article

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