Brownian motion of stiff filaments in a crowded environment

Science

Volumn 330, Issue 6012, 2010, Pages 1804-1807

  Fakhri, Nikta ^a   MacKintosh, Frederick C ^b   Lounis, Brahim ^c   Cognet, Laurent ^c   Pasquali, Matteo ^a  

^a Rice University   (United States)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAROSE; NANOCOMPOSITE; POLYMER; SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE;

ANISOTROPIC MEDIUM; BROWNIAN MOTION; DIFFUSION; POLYMER; POROSITY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CYTOSKELETON; MOTION; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY; THERMAL ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 78650644710     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1197321     Document Type: Article

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