Optimising DNA binding to carbon nanotubes by non-covalent methods

Carbon

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1775-1781

  Sanz, Vanesa ^a   Borowiak, Ewa ^b   Lukanov, Petar ^c   Galibert, Anna Marie ^c   Flahaut, Emmanuel ^c   Coley, Helen M ^a   Silva, S Ravi P ^a   McFadden, Johnjoe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b WEST POMERANIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS MEDIA; BI-LAYER; CATIONIC POLYMERS; COVALENT ATTACHMENT; DISPERSION PROPERTIES; DNA BINDING; DNA-BINDING PROPERTIES; FUNCTIONALIZATIONS; FUNCTIONALIZED; FUNCTIONALIZED CARBON NANOTUBES; GENE DELIVERY SYSTEMS; GENETIC MATERIALS; PLASMID DNA; VIRAL VECTORS;

BINDING ENERGY; DNA; ELECTROPHORESIS; FUNCTIONAL POLYMERS; GENE THERAPY; GENE TRANSFER; NUCLEIC ACIDS; RNA; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

EID: 79551656244     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2010.12.064     Document Type: Article

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