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Nanoscale Molecular Transport by Synthetic DNA Machines

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  1. Department of Bioengineering, USA

    Jong-Shik Shin & Niles A. Pierce

  2. Department of Applied & Computational Mathematics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125, USA

    Niles A. Pierce

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  1. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 19716, USA

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  2. Department of Mathematics, University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler Av., PHY114, Tampa, FL, 33620-5700, USA

    Nataša Jonoska

  3. Leiden Institute for Advanced Computer Science, Leiden University, Niels Bohrweg 1, 2333 CA, Leiden, The Netherlands

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Shin, JS., Pierce, N.A. (2006). Nanoscale Molecular Transport by Synthetic DNA Machines. In: Chen, J., Jonoska, N., Rozenberg, G. (eds) Nanotechnology: Science and Computation. Natural Computing Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-30296-4_11

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