Graphene: Substrate preparation and introduction

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 174, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 234-238

  Pantelic, Radosav S ^a   Suk, Ji Won ^b   Magnuson, Carl W ^b   Meyer, Jannik C ^c   Wachsmuth, Philipp ^c   Kaiser, Ute ^c   Ruoff, Rodney S ^b   Stahlberg, Henning ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cryo EM; DNA; Electron microscopy; Graphene; Graphene oxide; Transmission electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON SUBSTRATE; DNA; GRAPHENE; GRAPHENE OXIDE; OXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GRAPHITE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 79952454763     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: 10958657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2010.10.002     Document Type: Article

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