Analysis of spider silk in native and supercontracted states using Raman spectroscopy

Polymer

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 2493-2500

  Shao, Z ^a   Vollrath, F ^a   Sirichaisit, J ^b   Young, R J ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Conformations; Fibres

Indexed keywords

CONFORMATIONS; MACROMOLECULES; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SHRINKAGE;

SPIDER SILK; SUPERCONTRACTION;

SILK;

METHANOL; SILK; UREA; WATER;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SILKWORM; SPIDER; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ANALYSIS; MECHANICAL PROPERTY; SPECTROSCOPY; SPIDER SILK;

EID: 0033136870     PISSN: 00323861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0032-3861(98)00475-3     Document Type: Article

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