Structural proteins from whelk egg capsule with long range elasticity associated with a solid-state phase transition

• Main Authors: Wasko, S. Scott, Tay, Gavin Z., Schwaighofer, Andreas, Nowak, Christoph, Waite, J. Herbert, Miserez, Ali
• Other Authors: School of Materials Science & Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Materials::Biomaterials
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/102930; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/24415
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The robust, proteinaceous egg capsules of marine prosobranch gastropods (genus Busycotypus) exhibit unique biomechanical properties such as high elastic strain recovery and elastic energy dissipation capability. Capsule material possesses long-range extensibility that is fully recoverable and is the...