Collagen breaks at weak sacrificial bonds taming its mechanoradicals
Abstract Collagen is a force-bearing, hierarchical structural protein important to all connective tissue. In tendon collagen, high load even below macroscopic failure level creates mechanoradicals by homolytic bond scission, similar to polymers. The location and type of initial rupture sites critica...
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Nature Portfolio
2023-04-01
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| Reeks: | Nature Communications |
| Online toegang: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37726-z |