Hopping along DNA
The rate at which electrons and holes move along DNA is sufficient to prevent strand-cleavage reactions, but too slow to make DNA a useful molecular wire.
Jul 13, 2000
Oxidative damage yields isolated electrons and their corresponding "holes" that can migrate along DNA. In the 6 July
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