Viscous friction between crystalline and amorphous phase of dragline silk

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Patil, Sandeep P ^a   Xiao, Senbo ^a   Gkagkas, Konstantinos ^b   Markert, Bernd ^c   Gräter, Frauke ^a  

^a HEIDELBERG INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL STUDIES   (Germany)

^b Toyota Motor Europe NV/SA   (Belgium)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILK;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FRICTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SPIDER; VISCOSITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CRYSTALLIZATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FRICTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SILK; SPIDERS; VISCOSITY;

EID: 84905976928     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0104832     Document Type: Article

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