Spider silk has an ice nucleation activity

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 117-118

  Murase, Norio ^a   Ruike, Masatoshi ^a   Matsunaga, Naoki ^a   Hayakawa, Masahiro ^a   Kaneko, Yoshinori ^a   Ono, Yuzo ^a  

^a TOKYO DENKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CRYOBIOLOGY; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; FREEZING; NONHUMAN; SILK; SPIDER; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; FREEZING; ICE; INSECT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; SILK; SPIDERS; WATER;

ARANEAE;

EID: 0035013339     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001140100205     Document Type: Article

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