Aqueous-based spinning of fibers from self-assembling structural proteins

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 996, Issue , 2013, Pages 43-59

  Arcidiacono, Steven ^a   Welsh, Elizabeth A ^a   Soares, Jason W ^a  

^a DEVELOPMENT AND ENGINEERING CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Fiber; Mechanical properties; Recombinant proteins; Spider silk; Spinning

Indexed keywords

RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; STRUCTURAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESSING; RIGIDITY; SPIDER; STRENGTH;

ARANEAE;

EID: 84877107480     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-62703-354-1_3     Document Type: Article

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