Stability of silk and collagen protein materials in space

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Hu, Xiao ^a,b   Raja, Waseem K ^a   An, Bo ^a   Tokareva, Olena ^a   Cebe, Peggy ^c   Kaplan, David L ^a  

^a Tufts University   (United States)

^b ROWAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; SILK;

ASTRONOMY; CHEMISTRY; PROTEIN STABILITY; SPACE FLIGHT;

COLLAGEN; EARTH (PLANET); PROTEIN STABILITY; SILK; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACECRAFT;

EID: 84890082433     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep03428     Document Type: Article

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