Materiomics: Biological protein materials, from nano to macro

Nanotechnology, Science and Applications

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 127-148

  Cranford, Steven ^a   Buehler, Markus J ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological materials; Deformation; Diversity; Failure; Functional material properties; Hierarchies; Materiomics; Multiscale; Peptide; Protein; Universality

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; BIOMATERIAL; STEEL; TISSUE SCAFFOLD;

BONE; COMPOSITE MATERIAL; ENGINEERING; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE DEFORMABILITY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GASTROPOD; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MALARIA; MATERIALS; MATERIOME; MATERIOMICS; MECHANICS; MOLLUSC; MORPHOLOGY; NATURAL SCIENCE; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA; PHYSICS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SIMULATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TENSILE STRENGTH; WEIGHT BEARING; YOUNG MODULUS;

EID: 78650695342     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11778903     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.2147/NSA.S9037     Document Type: Review

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