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SUBMITTER: Wagner JA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5681667 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wagner Johannes A JA Patil Sandeep P SP Greving Imke I Lämmel Marc M Gkagkas Konstantinos K Seydel Tilo T Müller Martin M Markert Bernd B Gräter Frauke F
Scientific reports 20171110 1
The emergence of order from disorder is a topic of vital interest. We here propose that long-range order can arise from a randomly arranged two-phase material under mechanical load. Using Small-Angle Neutron Scattering (SANS) experiments and Molecular Dynamics based finite element (FE) models we show evidence for stress-induced ordering in spider dragline silk. Both methods show striking quantitative agreement of the position, shift and intensity increase of the long period upon stretching. We d ...[more]