Determination of electrostatic potentials at biological interfaces using electron-electron double resonance

Y K Shin1, W L Hubbell

  • 1Jules Stein Eye Institute, University of California, Los Angeles 90024-7008.

Biophysical Journal
|June 1, 1992
PubMed

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