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Brinkers, S. (author), Dietrich, H.R.C. (author), De Groote, F.H. (author), Young, I.T. (author), Rieger, B. (author)The wormlike chain model describes the micromechanics of semiflexible polymers by introducing the persistence length. We propose a method of measuring the persistence length of DNA in a controllable near-native environment. Using a dark field microscope, the projected positions of a gold nanoparticle undergoing constrained Brownian motion are...journal article 2009