Compactness determines the success of cube and octahedron self-assembly

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Azam, Anum ^a   Leong, Timothy G ^b   Zarafshar, Aasiyeh M ^a   Gracias, David H ^b,c  

^a Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine   (United States)

^b Whiting School of Engineering   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOENGINEERING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUBE; GEOMETRY; HYPOTHESIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; OCTAHEDRON; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 84887212431     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004451     Document Type: Article

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