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Electrochemical DNA three-way junction based sensor for distinguishing chiral metallo-supramolecular complexes

Lingyan Feng1, Chuanqi Zhao, Yi Xiao

  • 1Division of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Resource Utilization, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin 130022, China.

Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|May 24, 2012
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