Anomalous zipping dynamics and forced polymer translocation

Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment

Volumn 2011, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Ferrantini, A ^a   Carlon, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

bio polymers) (theory); mechanical properties (DNA; membranes; polymer elasticity and dynamics; RNA

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952734062     PISSN: 17425468     EISSN: 17425468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1742-5468/2011/02/P02020     Document Type: Article

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