Transport and self-organization across different length scales powered by motor proteins and programmed by DNA.

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Published in Nat Nanotechnol on November 10, 2013

Authors

Adam J M Wollman1, Carlos Sanchez-Cano1, Helen M J Carstairs1, Robert A Cross2, Andrew J Turberfield1

Author Affiliations

1: Clarendon Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, UK.
2: Warwick Medical School, Gibbet Hill, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK.

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