Investigating the thermodynamics of small biosystems with optical tweezers

Physica E: Low-Dimensional Systems and Nanostructures

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 666-671

  Mossa, Alessandro ^a   Huguet, Josep Maria ^a   Ritort, Felix ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

Author keywords

Single molecule experiments; Thermodynamics of small systems

Indexed keywords

BIO-SYSTEMS; DNA MOLECULES; EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES; EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION; FLUCTUATION THEOREMS; FREE ENERGY LANDSCAPE; MESOSCOPICS; NON EQUILIBRIUM; SINGLE-MOLECULE; SINGLE-MOLECULE EXPERIMENTS; SMALL SYSTEMS;

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; MOLECULES; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; THERMODYNAMICS;

OPTICAL TWEEZERS;

EID: 74349118326     PISSN: 13869477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physe.2009.06.055     Document Type: Article

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