Evidence of the most stretchable egg sac silk stalk, of the European spider of the year Meta menardi

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Lepore, Emiliano ^a   Marchioro, Andrea ^a   Isaia, Marco ^b   Buehler, Markus J ^c   Pugno, Nicola M ^a,d,e  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^d National Laboratories of Frascati   (France)

^e ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI RICERCA METROLOGICA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FIELD EMISSION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; META MENARDI; NONHUMAN; SILK; SPIDER; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; TENSILE STRENGTH; YOUNG MODULUS; ANIMAL; EUROPE; MATERIALS TESTING; PHYSIOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ARANEAE;

ANIMALS; EUROPE; MATERIALS TESTING; SILK; SPIDERS; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 84856732589     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030500     Document Type: Article

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