Long-range charge transport in single G-quadruplex DNA molecules

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1040-1046

  Livshits, Gideon I ^a   Stern, Avigail ^a   Rotem, Dvir ^a   Borovok, Natalia ^b   Eidelshtein, Gennady ^b   Migliore, Agostino ^b,c   Penzo, Erika ^d   Wind, Shalom J ^d   Di Felice, Rosa ^e,f   Skourtis, Spiros S ^g   Cuevas, Juan Carlos ^h   Gurevich, Leonid ⁱ   Kotlyar, Alexander B ^b   Porath, Danny ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f CNR   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^h Ciudad Universitaria de Cantoblanco   (Spain)

ⁱ AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICA; SILICATE MINERALS;

DNA MOLECULES; G-QUADRUPLEXES; MICA SUBSTRATES; PROGRAMMABLE CIRCUITS; RANGE HOPPING; THEORETICAL MODELLING; THERMALLY ACTIVATED; TRANSPORT MEASUREMENTS;

DNA;

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; GUANINE QUADRUPLEX; MICA; NANOWIRE; SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE; ALUMINUM SILICATE; DNA;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; DNA STRUCTURE; DNA TRANSFER; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; HYDROGEN BOND; LONG RANGE CHARGE TRANSPORT; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NUCLEIC ACID TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; STATIC ELECTRICITY; THEORETICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY;

ALUMINUM SILICATES; DNA; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; NANOWIRES;

EID: 84923264041     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2014.246     Document Type: Article

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