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DNA Nanotubes as a Versatile Tool to Study Semiflexible Polymers
Published on: October 25, 2017
Construction, DNA wrapping and cleavage of a carbon nanotube-polypseudorotaxane conjugate
Yong Chen1, Lu Yu, Xi-Zeng Feng
1Department of Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, College of Life Science, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, PR China.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|July 2, 2009
Abstract:
A supramolecular assembly of carbon nanotubes was constructed by non-covalently wrapping cyclodextrin-based polypseudorotaxanes on single wall carbon nanotubes; the assembly showed good abilities in wrapping and cleaving double-stranded DNA.
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