Rough fibrils provide a toughening mechanism in biological fibers

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1961-1969

  Brown, Cameron P ^a,b,c,d   Harnagea, Catalin ^c   Gill, Harinderjit S ^a   Price, Andrew J ^a   Traversa, Enrico ^b,d,e   Licoccia, Silvia ^b,d   Rosei, Federico ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^c INRS EMT   (Canada)

^d Catalysis and Biomedical Applications   (Italy)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

analysis; collagen; element; fibrils; finite; mechanics; spider silk; toughness

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS; ELEMENT; FIBRILS; FINITE; SPIDER SILKS;

BIOMIMETICS; COLLAGEN; MECHANICS; MORPHOLOGY; SILK; TOUGHNESS;

STRENGTH OF MATERIALS;

ANATOMY; COLLAGEN; FIBRILS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MECHANICS; SILK; TOUGHNESS;

COLLAGEN; NANOMATERIAL;

ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BIOMECHANICS; CHEMISTRY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MECHANICS; SILK; SPIDER;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; COLLAGEN; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MECHANICAL PROCESSES; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; NANOSTRUCTURES; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; SILK; SPIDERS;

EID: 84859132462     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn300130q     Document Type: Article

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