Hagfish slime threads as a biomimetic model for high performance protein fibres

Bioinspiration and Biomimetics

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Fudge, Douglas S ^a   Hillis, Sonja ^a   Levy, Nimrod ^b   Gosline, John M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COVALENT CROSSLINKING; ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY; ECONOMICALLY VIABLE; MECHANICAL PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE PROTEINS; PETROLEUM RESERVE; SPIDER DRAGLINE SILK; TEXTILE MANUFACTURING;

PETROLEUM DEPOSITS; SILK; SYNTHETIC FIBERS; TEXTILE INDUSTRY;

PROTEINS;

ARANEAE; HAGFISH; MYXINIDAE;

BIOMIMETIC MATERIAL; FIBROIN; NANOFIBER; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; ELASTICITY; HAGFISH; HUMIDITY; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; MATERIALS TESTING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SILK; TENSILE STRENGTH; TEXTILE;

ANIMALS; BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; ELASTICITY; FIBROINS; HAGFISHES; HUMIDITY; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENTS; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOFIBERS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEINS; SILK; TENSILE STRENGTH; TEXTILES;

EID: 77956784587     PISSN: 17483182     EISSN: 17483190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-3182/5/3/035002     Document Type: Article

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