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Nature Materials 2, 567 - 568 (2003)
doi:10.1038/nmat962
Nanopores: The art of sucking spaghetti
Robert Austin1
- 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
Abstract
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.
