Joseph K Awino1, Roshan W Gunasekara1, Yan Zhao1

  • 1Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University , Ames, Iowa 50011-3111, United States.

概括

研究人员使用"疏水性编码小穴"开发了纳米粒子受体,以实现特定序列的结合. 这一突破使得特征的精确识别成为可能,

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