Mechanical properties of crosslinks controls failure mechanism of hierarchical intermediate filament networks

Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 014005-

  Qin, Zhao ^a   Buehler, Markus J ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

bioinspired design; crosslink strength; failure mechanism; flow tolerance; intermediate filament; protein network; rupture; soft material

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921376565     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20950349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/2.1201405     Document Type: Article

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