Macroscopic liquid crystal response to isolated DNA helices

Langmuir

Volumn 27, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 11767-11772

  Malone, Stephanie M ^a   Schwartz, Daniel K ^a  

^a University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL RESPONSE; DNA MOLECULES; DOUBLE-STRANDED DNA (DS-DNA); OBLIQUE ANGLES; ORIENTATIONAL CORRELATIONS; SINGLE MOLECULE; SINGLE-STRANDED DNA;

CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; DNA;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; CHEMISTRY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LIQUID CRYSTAL; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY;

BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; DNA; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 80053312390     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la202640a     Document Type: Article

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