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Conformational changes of protein adsorbed on tailored flat substrates with different chemistries

He Huang1, Jing Xie, Xiaoli Liu

  • 1Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Advanced Functional Polymeric Materials Design and Application, Department of Polymer Science & Engineering, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University, 199 Ren'ai Road, Suzhou 215123, PR China. hehuang@suda.edu.cn

Chemphyschem : a European Journal of Chemical Physics and Physical Chemistry
|October 15, 2011
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