Self-assembly of coiled-coil fibrous proteins from elastomeric egg capsules of marine snails, busycotypus canaliculatus and pugilina cochlidium

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Tay, Gavin Zhongcheng
• مؤلفون آخرون: Ali Gilles Tchenguise Miserez
• التنسيق: Theses and Dissertations
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2015
• الموضوعات: DRNTU::Engineering::Materials::Biomaterials
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/65849
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

The proteinaceous acellular egg capsules of Busycotypus canaliculatus and Pugilina cochlidium (a local marine snail species) possess excellent elasticity and mechanical damping ability. They exhibit remarkable extensibility that is fully, yet quickly, recoverable. This is unique and has been found t...