Pressure sensitive adhesion of an elastomeric protein complex extracted from squid ring teeth

• Main Authors: Pena-Francesch, Abdon, Akgun, Bulent, Miserez, Ali, Zhu, Wenpeng, Gao, Huajian, Demirel, Melik C.
• Other Authors: School of Materials Science & Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Materials
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/103607; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/24568
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The pressure sensitive adhesion characteristic of a protein complex extracted from squid ring teeth (SRT), which exhibits an unusual and reversible transition from a solid to a melt, is studied. The native SRT is an elastomeric protein complex that has standard amino acids, and it does not function...