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A biomimetic mercury(II)-gated single nanochannel
Ye Tian1, Zhen Zhang, Liping Wen
1Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P. R. China. wlp@iccas.ac.cn.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|June 8, 2013
Abstract:
A simple biomimetic mercury(II)-gated single nanochannel has been developed by incorporating a mercury(II) responsive single stranded DNA (ssDNA) with thymine-thymine (T-T) bases into a single polymetic nanochannel.
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