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SUBMITTER: Kushner AM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2746198 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kushner Aaron M AM Vossler John D JD Williams Gregory A GA Guan Zhibin Z
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20090701 25
Natural materials employ many elegant strategies to achieve mechanical properties required for survival under varying environmental conditions. Thus these remarkable biopolymers and nanocomposites often not only have a combination of mechanical properties such as high modulus, toughness, and elasticity, but also exhibit adaptive and stimuli-responsive properties. Inspired by skeletal muscle protein titin, we have synthesized a biomimetic modular polymer that not only closely mimics the modular m ...[more]