Evidence of a cholesteric liquid crystalline phase in natural silk spinning processes

Macromolecules

Volumn 29, Issue 15, 1996, Pages 5106-5110

  Willcox, P Jeanene ^a   Gido, Samuel P ^a   Muller, Wayne ^b   Kaplan, David L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b Biotechnology Division   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; QUENCHING; SILK; SPINNING (FIBERS); TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

MICROTOMING; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0030196210     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma960588n     Document Type: Article

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