Interactions between low energy electrons and DNA: a perspective from first-principles simulations
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0953-8984,1361-648X
DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/aa79e3