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Bard A J, Fan F-R F and Mirkin M V 1994 Soanning eleotroohemioal miorosoopy Electroanalytical Chemistry yo 18, ed A J Bard (New York Dekker)... 

Mirkin M V 1996 Reoent advanoes in soanning eleotroohemioal miorosoopy, analytioal ohemistry Ana/. Chem. 68 177A... 

Mirkin M V 1999 Fligh resolution studies of heterogeneous prooesses with the soanning eleotroohemioal miorosoope Mikrochim. Acta 30 127... 

Mirkin M V and Florrooks B R 2000 Eleotroanalytioal measurements using the soanning eleotroohemioal miorosoope Anal. Chim. Acta 406 119... 

Mirkin C A and Caldwell W B 1996 Thin film, fullerene-based materials Tetrahedron 52 5113-30... 

An equally important challenge for nanocrystal assembly is the fonnation of specific nanocrystal arrangements in solution. By using complementary DNA strands as tethers, Mirkin et al [102, 103] fonned aggregates of gold nanocrystals with specific sizes Alivisatos et al also used DNA to stmcture semiconductor nanocrystal molecules, though in this case the molecules contained only a few nanocrystals placed controlled distances from each other [104, 105 and 106]. The potential applications of biomolecular teclmiques to this area of nanoscience are immense, and the opportunities have been reviewed in several recent publications [107, 108, 109 and 110]. 

Mirkin C A ef a/1996 A DNA-based method for rationally assembling nanopartioles into maorosoopio materials Nature 382 607... 

Storhoff J J and Mirkin C A 1999 Programmed materials synthesis with DNA Chem. Rev. 99 1849... 

Figure 9.6. (a) The temperature dependence of the flow stress for a Ni-Cr-AI superalloy containing different volume fractions of y (after Beardmore et al. 1969). (b) Influence of lattice parameter mismatch, in kX (eflectively equivalent to A) on creep rupture life (after Mirkin and Kancheev... 

A review of what has come to be called molecular electronics (Mirkin and Ratner 1992) includes many striking discoveries, such as a device based on azoben .ene (Liu et al. 1990) that undergoes a stereochemical transition, trans-to-cis, when irradiated with ultraviolet light, but reverts to trans when irradiated with visible light. The investigators in Japan found that L-B films of their molecules can be used for a... 

P. Sakya, J. M. Seddon, R. H. Templer, R. J. Mirkin, G. J. T. Tiddy. Micellar cubic phases and their structural relationships the nonionic surfactant system Ci2EOi2/water. Langmuir 75 3706-3714, 1997. 

The explicit mathematical treatment for such stationary-state situations at certain ion-selective membranes was performed by Iljuschenko and Mirkin 106). As the publication is in Russian and in a not widely distributed journal, their work will be cited in the appendix. The authors obtain an equation (s. (34) on page 28) similar to the one developed by Eisenman et al. 6) for glass membranes using the three-segment potential approach. However, the mobilities used in the stationary-state treatment are those which describe the ion migration in an electric field through a diffusion layer at the phase boundary. A diffusion process through the entire membrane with constant ion mobilities does not have to be assumed. The non-Nernstian behavior of extremely thin layers (i.e., ISFET) can therefore also be described, as well as the role of an electron transfer at solid-state membranes. 

The proposed model for the so-called sodium-potassium pump should be regarded as a first tentative attempt to stimulate the well-informed specialists in that field to investigate the details, i.e., the exact form of the sodium and potassium current-voltage curves at the inner and outer membrane surfaces to demonstrate the excitability (e.g. N, S or Z shaped) connected with changes in the conductance and ion fluxes with this model. To date, the latter is explained by the theory of Hodgkin and Huxley U1) which does not take into account the possibility of solid-state conduction and the fact that a fraction of Na+ in nerves is complexed as indicated by NMR-studies 124). As shown by Iljuschenko and Mirkin 106), the stationary-state approach also considers electron transfer reactions at semiconductors like those of ionselective membranes. It is hoped that this article may facilitate the translation of concepts from the domain of electrodes in corrosion research to membrane research. 

Stationary state situations at ion-selective membranes after Iljuschenko and Mirkin,06)... 

ITulanicki and Levenstam 1Z5) already suggested a model with a diffusion layer inside the solution. The stationary-state treatment of Ilushenko and Mirkin in... 

Slone CS, Weinberger DA, Mirkin CA (1999) Prog Inorg Chem 48 233 Braunstein P, Naud F, Dedieu A, Rohmer M-M, DeCian A, Rettig SJ (2001) Organometallics 20 2966... 

Mirkin C.A., Letsinger R.L., Mucic R.C., Storhoee J.J. A DNA-based method for rationally assembling nanoparticles into macroscopic materials. Nature 1996 382 607-609. 

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