Identifying single nucleotides by tunnelling current

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 286-290

  Tsutsui, Makusu ^a   Taniguchi, Masateru ^a,b   Yokota, Kazumichi ^a   Kawai, Tomoji ^a,c  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c Konkuk University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA SEQUENCES; GENE ENCODING; NUCLEOTIDES;

ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICAL DETECTION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NANO-ELECTRODES; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDES; TECHNOLOGY-BASED; TUNNELLING CURRENT;

ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

NUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRODE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 77950801786     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2010.42     Document Type: Article

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