DISSERTATION

18. Canaria C. A.; So J.; Maloney J. R.; Yu C. J.; Smith J. O.; Roukes M. L., et al.: Formation
and removal of alkylthiolate self-assembled monolayers on gold in aqueous solutions. Lab
Chip 2006, 6, 289–295.
19. Diao P.; Hou Q.; Guo M.; Xiang M.; Zhang Q.: Effect of substrate potentials on the
structural disorders of alkanethiol monolayers prepared by electrochemically directed
assembly. J. Electroanal. Chem. 2006, 597, 103–110.
20. Lösch R., Stratmann M., Viefhaus H.: Structure and Properties of Mercaptan-LB Films
prepared under electrochemical potential control. Electrochim. Acta, 39, 1215–1221.
21. Dilimon V. S.; Rajalingam S.; Delhalle J.; Mekhalif Z.: Self-assembly mechanism of thiol,
dithiol, dithiocarboxylic acid, disulfide and diselenide on gold: an electrochemical
impedance study. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2013, 15, 16648–16656.
22. Li Z.; Niu T.; Zhang Z.; Bi S.: Potential control characteristics of short-chain thiols of
thioctic acid and mercaptohexanol self-assembled on gold. Electrochim. Acta 2010, 55,
6907–6916.
23. Brett C. M. A.; Kresak S.; Hianik T.; Oliveira Brett A. M.: Studies on Self-Assembled
Alkanethiol Monolayers Formed at Applied Potential on Polycrystalline Gold Electrodes.
Electroanal. 2003, 15, 557–565.
24. Petrović Ž.; Metikoš-Huković M.; Babić R.: Potential-assisted assembly of 1-
dodecanethiol on polycrystalline gold. J. Electroanal. Chem. 2008, 623, 54–60.
25. Oswald Avery, Colin MacLeod, Maclyn McCarty: Studies on the chemical nature of the
substance inducing transformation of Pneumococcal types. Induction of transformation by
a desoxyribonucleic acid fraction isolated from Pneumococcus type III. J. Experim. Med.
1944, 79, 137–159.
26. Watson, J. D., Crick, F. H. C.: Molecular structure of nucleic acids. A structure for
deoxyribose nucleic acid. Nature 1953, 171, 4356–4357.
27. Watson, J. D., Crick, F. H. C.: Genetical implications of the structure of deoxyribonucleic
acid. Nature 1953, 171, 964–967.
28. Wilkins, M. H. F., Stokes, A. R., Wilson, H. R.: Molecular structure of deoxypentose
nucleic acids. Nature 1953, 171, 738–740.
29. Franklin, R., Gosling, R. G.: Molecular configuration in sodium thymonucleate. Nature
1953, 171, 740–741.
30. F. Rosalind R. G.: Evidence for 2-chain helix in crystalline structure of sodium
deoxyribonucleate. Nature 1953, 172, 156–157.
31. Wilson, W., Rau, D., Bloomfield, V.: Comparison of polyelectrolyte theories of the
binding of cations to DNA. Biophys. J. 1980, 30, 317–326.
32. G. Manning: Counterion binding in Polyelectrolyte theory. Acc. Chem. Res., 12, 443–449.
33. Stigter D.: Evaluation of the counterion condensation theory of polyelectrolytes. Biophys.
J. 1995, 69, 380–388.
34. Tomić S.; Babić S.; Vuletić T.; Krča S.; Ivanković D.; Griparić L.; Podgornik R.:
Dielectric relaxation of DNA aqueous solutions. Phys. Rev. E 2007, 75.
35. J. Schellman; D. Stigter: Electrical double layer, zeta potential, and electrophoretic charge
of double-stranded DNA. Biopolymers 1977, 16, 1415–1434.
36. Harrington R.: Opticohydrodynamic properties of high-molecular-weight DNA. III. The
effects of NaCl concentration. Biopolymers 1978, 17, 919–936.
37. Chen H.; Meisburger S. P.; Pabit S. A.; Sutton J. L.; Webb W. W.; Pollack L.: Ionic
strength-dependent persistence lengths of single-stranded RNA and DNA. Proc. Natl.
Acad. Sci.USA 2012, 109, 799–804.
38. Bustamante C.; Bryant Z.; Smith S. B.: Ten years of tension: single-molecule DNA
mechanics. Nature 2003, 421, 423–427.
128