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A novel logic gate based on liquid-crystals responding to the DNA conformational transition
Fubing Xiao1, Hui Tan2, Yan Wu1
1State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, P. R. China. zywu@hnu.edu.cn.
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|April 23, 2016
Abstract:
Described herein is a novel liquid crystal (LC)-based DNA logic gate constructed via employing the reorientation of LCs triggered by metal-ion-mediated DNA probe conformational changes.
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