Longitudinal variations in the Poisson's ratio of collagen fibrils

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 98, Issue 16, 2011, Pages

  Wenger, Marco P E ^a   Mesquida, Patrick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT CONDITIONS; ATOMIC FORCE; COLLAGEN FIBRILS; ELASTICITY THEORY; LONGITUDINAL VARIATIONS; MECHANICS MODELS; OVERLAP REGION; POISSON'S RATIO;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; COLLAGEN; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; ELASTICITY;

POISSON RATIO;

EID: 79955449981     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3567784     Document Type: Article

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