Bond energy effects on strength, cooperativity and robustness of molecular structures

Interface Focus

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 734-743

  Chou, Chia Ching ^a   Buehler, Markus J ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Deformation; Failure; Materiomics; Molecular mechanics; Robustness; Strength

Indexed keywords

EID: 80155123135     PISSN: 20428898     EISSN: 20428901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsfs.2011.0038     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. Alberts, B., Johnson, A., Lewis, J., Raff, M., Roberts, K. & Walter, P. 2002 Molecular biology of the cell. New York, NY: Taylor & Francis.
2. Fratzl, P. & Weinkamer, R. 2007 Nature's hierarchical materials. Prog. Mater. Sci. 52, 1263-1334. (doi:10. 1016/j.pmatsci.2007.06.001)
3. Meyers, M. A., Chen, P.-Y. u, Lin, A. Y.-M. & Seki, Y. 2008 Biological materials: structure and mechanical properties. Prog. Mater. Sci. 53, 1-206. (doi:10.1016/j. pmatsci.2007.05.002)
4. Lakes, R. 1993 Materials with structural hierarchy. Nature 361, 511-515. (doi:10.1038/361511a0)
5. Buehler, M. J. 2010 Tu(r)ning weakness to strength. Nano Today 5, 379-383. (doi:10.1016/j.nantod.2010.08.001)
6. Aizenberg, J. & Fratzl, P. 2009 Biological and biomimetic materials. Adv. Mater. 21, 387-388. (doi:10.1002/adma. 200803699)
7. Omenetto, F. G. & Kaplan, D. L. 2010 New opportunities for an ancient material. Science 329, 528-531. (doi:10. 1126/science.1188936)
8. Zhang, K., Duan, H., Karihaloo, B. L. & Wang, J. 2010 Hierarchical, multilayered cell walls reinforced by recycled silk cocoons enhance the structural integrity of honeybee combs. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 107, 9502-9506. (doi:10.1073/pnas.0912066107)
9. Knowles, T.P. J., Oppenheim, T., Buell, A. K., Chirgadze, D. Y. &Welland, M. E. 2010 Nanostructured biofilms fromhierarchical self-assembly of amyloidogenic proteins. Nat. Nanotechnol. 5, 204-207. (doi:10.1038/nnano.2010.26)
10. Carpinteri, A. & Pugno, N. M. 2008 Mechanics of hierarchical materials. Int. J. Fracture 150, 221-226. (doi:10.1007/s10704-008-9219-1)
11. Fratzl, P. 2008 Collagen: structure and mechanics. New York, NY: Springer.
12. Aizenberg, J., Weaver, J. C., Thanawala, M. S., Sundar, V. C., Morse, D. E. & Fratz, P. 2005 Skeleton of Euplectella sp.: structural hierarchy from the nanoscale to the macroscale. Science 309, 275-278. (doi:10.1126/science. 1112255)
13. Buehler, M. J. & Yung, Y. C. 2009 Deformation and failure of protein materials in physiologically extreme conditions and disease. Nat. Mater. 8, 175-188. (doi:10. 1038/nmat2387)
14. Alberghina, L., Hofer, T. & Vanoni, M. 2009 Molecular networks and system-level properties. J. Biotechnol. 144, 224-233. (doi:10.1016/j.jbiotec.2009.07.009)
15. Munch, E., Launey, M. E., Alsem, D. H., Saiz, E., Tomsia, A. P. & Ritchie, R. O. 2008 Tough, bio-inspired hybrid materials. Science 322, 1516-1520. (doi:10.1126/science. 1164865)
16. Podsiadlo, P. et al. 2007 Ultrastrong and stiff layered polymer nanocomposites. Science 318, 80-83. (doi:10.1126/science.1143176)
17. Bonderer, L. J., Studart, A. R. & Gauckler, L. J. 2008 Bioinspired design and assembly of platelet reinforced polymer films. Science 319, 1069-1073. (doi:10.1126/science.1148726)
18. Xu, Y. X., Hong, W., Bai, H., Li, C. & Shi, G. 2009 Strong and ductile poly(vinyl alcohol)/graphene oxide composite films with a layered structure. Carbon 47, 3538-3543. (doi:10.1016/j.carbon.2009.08.022)
19. Gao, H., Wang, X., Yao, H., Gorb, S. &Arzt, E. 2005 Mechanics of hierarchical adhesion structures of geckos. Mech. Mat. 37, 275-285. (doi:10.1016/j.mechmat.2004.03.008)
20. Qian, J. & Gao, H. J. 2010 Soft matrices suppress cooperative behaviors among receptor-ligand bonds in cell adhesion. PLoS ONE 5, e12342. (doi:10.1371/journal. pone.0012342)
21. Paris, O., Burgert, I. & Fratzl, P. 2010 Biomimetics and biotemplating of natural materials. MRS Bull. 35, 219-225. (doi:10.1557/mrs2010.655)
22. Pugno, N. & Carpinteri, A. 2003 Tubular adhesive joints under axial load. J. Appl. Mech. Trans. Asme 70, 832-839. (doi:10.1115/1.1604835)
23. Pugno, N. M. 2010 Graded cross-links for stronger nanomaterials. Mater. Today 13, 40-43. (doi:10.1016/S1369-7021(10)70032-8)
24. Pugno, N. M. 2008 Spiderman gloves. Nano Today 3, 35-41. (doi:10.1016/S1748-0132(08)70063-X)
25. Pugno, N. M. 2006 Mimicking nacre with super-nanotubes for producing optimized super-composites. Nanotechnology 17, 5480-5484. (doi:10.1088/0957-4484/17/21/031)
26. Stuart, S. J., Tutein, A. B. & Harrison, J. A. 2000 A reactive potential for hydrocarbons with intermolecular interactions. J. Chem. Phys. 112, 6472-6486. (doi:10. 1063/1.481208)
27. Lehninger, A., Nelson, D. & Cox, M. 2005 Lehninger principles of biochemistry. New York, NY: W. H. Freeman.
28. Keten, S. & Buehler, M. J. 2008 Asymptotic strength limit of hydrogen-bond assemblies in proteins at vanishing pulling rates. Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 198301. (doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.198301)
29. Keten, S. & Buehler, M. J. 2008 Geometric confinement governs the rupture strength of H-bond assemblies at a critical length scale. Nano Lett. 8, 743-748. (doi:10. 1021/nl0731670)
30. Keten, S. & Buehler, M. J. 2008 Strength limit of entropic elasticity in b-sheet protein domains. Phys. Rev. E 78, 061913. (doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.78.061913)
31. Qin, Z. & Buehler, M. J. 2010 Cooperative deformation of hydrogen bonds in beta-strands and b-sheet nanocrystals. Phys. Rev. E 82, 061906. (doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.82. 061906)
32. Kitano, H. 2002 Systems biology: a brief overview. Science 295, 1662-1664. (doi:10.1126/science.1069492)
33. Kitano, H. 2002 Computational systems biology. Nature 420, 206-210. (doi:10.1038/nature01254)
34. Ackbarow, T. & Buehler, M. J. 2008 Hierarchical coexistence of universality and diversity controls robustness and multifunctionality in protein materials. J. Comp. Theor. Nanosci. 5, 1193-1204. (doi:10.1166/jctn.2008.001)
35. Ackbarow, T., Chen, X., Keten, S. & Buehler, M. J. 2007 Hierarchies, multiple energy barriers, and robustness govern the fracture mechanics of a-helical and b-sheet protein domains. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 104, 16 410-16 415. (doi:10.1073/pnas.0705759104)
36. Penel, S., Morrison, R. G., Dobson, P. D., Mortishire-Smith, R. J. & Doig, A. J. 2003 Length preferences and periodicity in beta-strands. Antiparallel edge b-sheets are more likely to finish in non-hydrogen bonded rings. Protein Eng. 16, 957-961. (doi:10.1093/protein/gzg147)
37. Yoder, M. D., Lietzke, S. E. & Jurnak, F. 1993 Unusual structural features in the parallel b-helix in pectate lyases. Structure 1, 241-251. (doi:10.1016/0969-2126 (93)90013-7)
38. Liang, J. & Fernandez, J. M. 2009 Mechanochemistry: one bond at a time. ACS Nano 3, 1628-1645. (doi:10.1021/nn900294n)
39. Qin, Z., Kreplak, L. & Buehler, M. J. 2009 Hierarchical structure controls nanomechanical properties of vimentin intermediate filaments. PLoS ONE 4, e7294. (doi:10. 1371/journal.pone.0007294)
40. Marko, J. F. & Siggia, E. D. 1995 Stretching DNA. Macromolecules 28, 8759-8770. (doi:10.1021/ma00130a008)
41. Bustamante, C., Marko, J., Siggia, E. & Smith, S. 1994 Entropic elasticity of lambda-phage DNA. Science 265, 1599-1600. (doi:10.1126/science.8079175)
42. Buehler, M. J. & Gao, H. J. 2006 Dynamical fracture instabilities due to local hyperelasticity at crack tips. Nature 439, 307-310. (doi:10.1038/nature04408)
43. Griffith, A. A. 1921 The phenomena of rupture and flow in solids. Phils. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. A 221, 163-198. (doi:10.1098/rsta.1921.0006)
44. Broberg, K. B. 1990 Cracks and fracture. New York, NY: Academic Press.