Molecular nanosprings in spider capture-silk threads

Nature Materials

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 278-283

  Becker, Nathan ^a   Oroudjev, Emin ^a   Mutz, Stephanie ^a   Cleveland, Jason P ^b   Hansma, Paul K ^a   Hayashi, Cheryl Y ^c   Makarov, Dmitrii E ^d   Hansma, Helen G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b United States   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; CONFORMATIONS; ELASTICITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; POSITIVE IONS; PROTEINS; SECONDARY ION MASS SPECTROMETRY; TENSILE STRENGTH; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARANEUS; FORCE SPECTROSCOPY; SPIDER SILK; SUPRAMOLECULAR STRUCTURE;

SILK;

FLAG PROTEIN, NEPHILA; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ELASTICITY; MACROMOLECULE; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPIDER;

ANIMALS; ELASTICITY; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PROTEINS; SPIDERS; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 0038206538     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat858     Document Type: Article

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