Unidirectional transport of kinesin-coated beads on microtubules oriented in a microfluidic device

Nano Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2265-2270

  Yokokawa, Ryuji ^a   Takeuchi, Shoji ^a   Kon, Takahide ^b   Nishiura, Masaya ^b   Sutoh, Kazuo ^b   Fujita, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; COATED MATERIALS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDROLYSIS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; SURFACE PHENOMENA;

KINESIN; MICROFLUIDIC DEVICES; NANOTRANSPORT SYSTEMS; POLY(DIMETHYL SILOXANE) (PDMS);

GRANULAR MATERIALS;

EID: 9644266594     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl048851i     Document Type: Article

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