The geometrical origin of the strain-twist coupling in double helices

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Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Olsen, Kasper ^a   Bohr, Jakob ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

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EID: 80052825120     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21583226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3560851     Document Type: Article

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