Nature designs tough collagen: Explaining the nanostructure of collagen fibrils

By Markus J. Buehler. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2006

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Subfields: Biomaterials, Mechanical Engineering, Mechanics of Materials

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Mechanical properties of graphene papers (2011, background): “chical structures in biological materials, nanocomposites featuring superior stiffness, strength and energy dissipation capacities are reported as the next-generation multifunctional super-materials (Buehler, 2006; Dunlop and Fratzl, 2010; Fratzl and Weiner, 2010; Gao et al., 2003; Ji and Gao, 2004,”
Theoretical and computational hierarchical nanomechanics of protein materials: Deformation and fracture (2008, background): “molecular length, normalized by the maximum value [27].”
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Nature’s hierarchical materials (2007, background): “The mechanics of the fibril can be understood quantitatively in terms of two length scales, which characterize when, firstly, deformation changes from homogeneous intermolecular shear to propagation of slip pulses, and when, secondly, covalent bonds within in the tropocollagen molecules start to fra”