Electrochemical tunnelling sensors and their potential applications

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Albrecht, T ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; PROTEIN; RNA;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL REACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTROCHEMICAL TUNNELLING SENSOR; ELECTRODE; MOLECULAR PROBE; NANOANALYSIS; QUANTUM MECHANICS; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSOR; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; EVALUATION; GENETIC PROCEDURES; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY;

BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; DNA; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODES; PROTEINS; RNA;

EID: 84864299139     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1791     Document Type: Review

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