Deformation induced hydrophobicity: Implications in spider silk formation

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 56, Issue 20, 2001, Pages 5793-5800

  Lele, Ashish K ^a   Joshi, Yogesh M ^a   Mashelkar, R A ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY   (India)

^b NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

Associating polymer solutions; Flow induced separation; Hydrophobicity and hydrogen bonding

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN BONDS; HYDROPHOBICITY; PHASE SEPARATION; PROTEINS; SILK;

POLYMER CHAINS;

DEFORMATION;

DEFORMATION; HYDROPHOBIC PROPERTY; PHASE SEPARATION; POLYMER; SILK FIBER; SPIDER SILK; STRENGTH;

EID: 0035899837     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2509(01)00288-3     Document Type: Article

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