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Nature Materials 2, 567 - 568 (2003)
doi:10.1038/nmat962

Nanopores: The art of sucking spaghetti

Robert Austin1

  1. Robert Austin is at the Department of Physics, Jadwin Hall, Princeton University, Post Office Box 708, Princeton, New Jersey 08544-0708, USA. e-mail: austin@princeton.edu


Biomolecules are notorious for their unpredictable flexibility. Some of the smallest nanopores ever created are being used to manipulate individual DNA molecules, with far-from simple results.

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