Silk fiber mechanics from multiscale force distribution analysis

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1298-1305

  Cetinkaya, Murat ^a   Xiao, Senbo ^a,b   Markert, Bernd ^c   Stacklies, Wolfram ^b   Gräter, Frauke ^a,b,c  

^a HEIDELBERG INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL STUDIES   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

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ARANEAE;

EID: 79953858602     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2010.12.3712     Document Type: Article

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