Probing interfacial equilibration in microsphere crystals formed by DNA-directed assembly

Nature Materials

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 52-55

  Kim, Anthony J ^a   Scarlett, Raynaldo ^a   Biancaniello, Paul L ^b   Sinno, Talid ^a   Crocker, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL IMPURITIES; DNA; FREE ENERGY; MICROSPHERES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SELF ASSEMBLY;

COMPLEX STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLINE STRUCTURE; DNA-DIRECTED ASSEMBLY; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; NANOSCALE SELF ASSEMBLY; POTENTIAL IMPEDIMENTS; SEGREGATION COEFFICIENTS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDES;

BIOINFORMATICS;

DNA; MICROSPHERE; NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; METHODOLOGY; SURFACE PROPERTY; THERMODYNAMICS;

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; CRYSTALLIZATION; DNA; MICROSPHERES; NANOSTRUCTURES; SURFACE PROPERTIES; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 57849132617     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2338     Document Type: Article

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