The self-organizing properties of squid reflectin protein

Nature Materials

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 533-538

  Kramer, Ryan M ^a   Crookes Goodson, Wendy J ^a   Naik, Rajesh R ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SELF ASSEMBLY;

CEPHALOPODS; COLORATION; PHOTONIC GRATING; REFLECTINS;

PROTEINS;

PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CEPHALOPOD; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LIGHT; METABOLISM; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ANIMALS; DECAPODIFORMES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LIGHT; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PROTEINS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 34547265775     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1930     Document Type: Article

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