Joining forces: integrating the mechanical and optical single molecule toolkits
- 7 February 2014
- journal article
- perspective
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Chemical Science
- Vol. 5 (5), 1680-1697
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c3sc52502c
Abstract
Combining single molecule force measurements with fluorescence detection opens up exciting new possibilities for the characterization of mechanoresponsive molecules in Biology and Materials Science.Keywords
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