Driving denaturation: Nanoscale thermal transport as a probe of DNA melting

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Velizhanin, Kirill A ^a,b   Chien, Chih Chun ^a   Dubi, Yonatan ^a,c   Zwolak, Michael ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR NONLINEAR STUDIES   (United States)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASE PAIRS; BASE-PAIR FLUCTUATIONS; DNA DENATURATION; DNA MELTING; DNA TRANSCRIPTIONS; HEAT TRANSPORT PROPERTY; NANOSCALE THERMAL TRANSPORT; SENSITIVE PROBE; STRUCTURAL TRANSITIONS; THERMAL FLUCTUATIONS; TIME-SCALES; VIBRATIONAL DYNAMICS;

DENATURATION; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PROBES; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

DNA;

EID: 79961073333     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.83.050906     Document Type: Article

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