Single-molecule nanometry for biological physics

Reports on Progress in Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Kim, Hajin ^a,b   Ha, Taekjip ^a,b  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

NANOPARTICLE;

CHEMISTRY; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; REVIEW; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 84871337430     PISSN: 00344885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0034-4885/76/1/016601     Document Type: Article

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