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DNA Nanotubes as a Versatile Tool to Study Semiflexible Polymers
Published on: October 25, 2017
Tailoring the electronic structure of double-walled carbon nanotubes by encapsulating single-stranded DNA
Yongfeng Li1, Toshiro Kaneko, Rikizo Hatakeyama
1Department of Electronic Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8579, Japan. yfli@plasma.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp
Small (Weinheim an Der Bergstrasse, Germany)
|February 26, 2010
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