Nanostructure and molecular mechanics of spider dragline silk protein assemblies

Spider silk is a self-assembling biopolymer that outperforms most known materials in terms of its mechanical performance, despite its underlying weak chemical bonding based on H-bonds. While experimental studies have shown that the molecular structure of silk proteins has a direct influence on the s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Keten, Sinan, Buehler, Markus J
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Computational Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: The Royal Society 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61713
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4173-9659

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