Synthetic spider silk proteins and threads

Chemical Engineering Progress

Volumn 108, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 43-49

  Slotta, Ute ^a   Mougin, Nathalie ^a   Römer, Lin ^a   Leimer, Axel H ^a  

^a AMSILK GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS ENVIRONMENT; E. COLI; ELASTIC BEHAVIOR; HYDROGEN BOND NETWORKS; PROTEIN COMPONENTS; SILK FIBER; SPIDER SILK PROTEIN; SPIDER SILKS; SPINNING EXPERIMENTS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIBERS; GENES; HYDROGEN BONDS; PROTEINS; SILK;

SPINNING (FIBERS);

EID: 84862554015     PISSN: 03607275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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