Arrested demixing opens route to bigels

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 47, 2012, Pages 19155-19160

  Varrato, Francesco ^a   Di Michele, Lorenzo ^b   Belushkin, Maxim ^a   Dorsaz, Nicolas ^c   Nathan, Simon H ^b   Eiser, Erika ^b   Foffi, Giuseppe ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amorphous self assembly; DNA coated colloids; Programmable interactions; Spinodal decomposition

Indexed keywords

BIGEL; BIOMATERIAL; DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COLLOID; COMPUTER MODEL; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; GEOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; THERMOSTABILITY;

EID: 84869761929     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1214971109     Document Type: Article

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