Folding of electrostatically charged beads-on-a-string as an experimental realization of a theoretical model in polymer science

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 42, 2009, Pages 17644-17649

  Reches, Meital ^a   Snyder, Phillip W ^a   Whitesides, George M ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrets; Self assembly

Indexed keywords

NYLON; POLITEF; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE); POLYMER; POLYURETHAN; RNA;

AGITATION; ARTICLE; COMPUTER; ELECTRICITY; EXPERIMENT; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; PHYSICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIENCE; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; SIMULATION; THEORY;

BIOPOLYMERS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NYLONS; POLYMERS; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; RNA; STATIC ELECTRICITY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 70449555973     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0905533106     Document Type: Article

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