Ultrasonic acoustic levitation for fast frame rate X-ray protein crystallography at room temperature

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Tsujino, Soichiro ^a   Tomizaki, Takashi ^a  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

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EID: 84966925786     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep25558     Document Type: Article

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