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Looking inside cell walls

Nature Nanotechnology volume 2, pages 140–141 (2007)Cite this article

Carbon nanotubes have been used to probe the properties of bilayer systems resembling living cell membranes. Such experiments could offer new insights into the working of cells.

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Figure 1: Hybrid nanostructures could be used to learn more about the behaviour of cell membranes.

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  1. James Hone is at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, New York 10027, USA,

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  2. Lance Kam is at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York 10027, USA,

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Hone, J., Kam, L. Looking inside cell walls. Nature Nanotech 2, 140–141 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2007.48

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