Drawing-induced changes in morphology and mechanical properties of hornet silk gel films

Biomacromolecules

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1009-1018

  Kameda, Tsunenori ^a   Kojima, Katsura ^a   Togawa, Eiji ^b   Sezutsu, Hideki ^a   Zhang, Qiang ^a   Teramoto, Hidetoshi ^a   Tamada, Yasushi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; COILED COIL; COILED-COIL STRUCTURE; DRAW RATIO; GEL FILMS; HIGH PERFORMANCE FILMS; MORPHOLOGY AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; NATIVE STRUCTURES; TENSILE MODULI;

AMINO ACIDS; GELS; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; METALLIC FILMS; ORGANIC ACIDS; TENSILE STRENGTH;

SILK;

AMINO ACID;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; BIOFILM; COCOON; CONFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FILM; GEL; HYDROGEL; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SILK; VESPA SIMILLIMA; WASP; YELLOW HORNET;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BIOFILMS; GELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SILK; TENSILE STRENGTH; WASPS; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

VESPA; VESPIDAE; VESPINAE;

EID: 77950840256     PISSN: 15257797     EISSN: 15264602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bm901472a     Document Type: Article

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