Re-entrant melting as a design principle for DNA-coated colloids

Nature Materials

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 518-522

  Angioletti Uberti, Stefano ^a   Mognetti, Bortolo M ^a   Frenkel, Daan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; COLLOIDS; DNA; DNA SEQUENCES; MELTING; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

COLLOIDAL STRUCTURES; COLLOIDAL SUSPENSIONS; DESIGN PRINCIPLES; MODEL CALCULATIONS; MULTI-COMPONENT SYSTEMS; SELF-ASSEMBLING STRUCTURE; TEMPERATURE WINDOW; THERMODYNAMICALLY STABLE;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

DNA;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COLLOID; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; KINETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; TEMPERATURE;

BASE SEQUENCE; COLLOIDS; CRYSTALLIZATION; DNA; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84862730376     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3314     Document Type: Article

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