Hierarchical, self-similar structure in native squid pen

Soft Matter

Volumn 10, Issue 30, 2014, Pages 5541-5549

  Yang, Fei Chi ^a   Peters, Robert D ^a   Dies, Hannah ^a   Rheinstädter, Maikel C ^a,b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHITIN; CRYSTALLITES; EXPERIMENTS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MOLLUSCS; PROTEINS; SHELLFISH; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

DIFFERENT LENGTH SCALE; DIFFERENT SIZES; MONOCLINIC LATTICES; NANO-FIBRILS; OPTICAL EXPERIMENTS; PROTEIN LAYERS; SELF-SIMILAR; STRONG CORRELATION;

FIBERS;

CHITIN;

ANIMAL; CEPHALOPOD; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ANIMALS; CHITIN; DECAPODIFORMES; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84904215568     PISSN: 1744683X     EISSN: 17446848     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c4sm00301b     Document Type: Article

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