Heterogeneous nucleation of protein crystals using nanoporous gold nucleants

Journal of Materials Chemistry

Volumn 22, Issue 41, 2012, Pages 21928-21934

  Kertis, F ^a   Khurshid, S ^b   Okman, O ^c   Kysar, J W ^c   Govada, L ^b   Chayen, N ^b   Erlebacher, J ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL NUCLEI; HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEATION; MODEL EXPERIMENTS; NANO-POROUS; NANOPOROUS GOLD; NANOPOROUS SUBSTRATE; NUCLEANTS; PROTEIN CRYSTAL; PROTEIN CRYSTALLIZATION; SURFACE AREA;

AGGLOMERATION; EXPERIMENTS; GOLD; NUCLEATION; POROUS MATERIALS; SUBSTRATES; SURFACE CHEMISTRY;

PROTEINS;

EID: 84867317712     PISSN: 09599428     EISSN: 13645501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c2jm34527g     Document Type: Article

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